Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 2 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 3 | Four key members of my original team joined me from Hawker Siddeley and we started work on the first batch of 25 robots . |
| 4 | Their narrow perspective alienates them from broad-minded people who value the business in broader terms , who value certain immeasurable bit critical factors such as morale , expertise and goodwill . |
| 5 | Not to thank you , I mean — and Rose — oh , dear … ’ and her face crumpled , but the steely resolution which lay beneath her outward charm prevented her from giving way to the hysterics which she knew would take her over if she allowed herself to show any weakness . |
| 6 | For once we had height advantage , possibly only 300 or 400 feet , but sufficient , I believe , for their top mainplanes to conceal us from their pilots ’ sight . |
| 7 | … The want of ideas of their real essences sends us from our own thoughts , to the things themselves . |
| 8 | Yet its quasi-mystical elements prevent it from fully using its potential . |
| 9 | Doubt may be ambiguous , an anomaly , an abnormal-normal , but the very kick-back in its double-edged nature prevents anyone from settling permanently in error . |
| 10 | Crustaceans are able to amble freely among the anemone 's tentacles because their hard exoskeletons protect them from stings from the nematocysts . |
| 11 | Suddenly it takes over — uncontrollably , they lash out and then flee in panic , their ancient memory switching them from Jekyll to Hyde . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'd get done in if they did it 'ere , ’ said Nancy , using her healthy roundness to expel herself from the jammed-up doorway . |
| 13 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 14 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 15 | These secret services become a law unto themselves and their very secrecy insulates them from inspection or criticism . |
| 16 | Their very oddity deterred him from doing so . |
| 17 | In so far as its obstinate traditionalism prevented it from doing what political economy required , it had to be made to . |
| 18 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 19 | Resembles a broader-winged longer-tailed Peregrine ( p. 93 ) , with upperparts mid-brown like a Buzzard ( p. 77 ) , its pale head distinguishing it from both Peregrine and Lanner , though this not always clearly visible ; moustachial streak barely perceptible . |
| 20 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 21 | His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his ! |
| 22 | Any signatory of the convention is required to register a formal difference with the secretariat if its own laws preclude it from observing a standard while failure to implement a recommended practice only stimulates a request that the secretariat be informed . |
| 23 | The smallest of the three spotted woodpeckers that have a conspicuous white patch on each wing , a feature at once distinguishing it from the three on p. 197 , while its red crown separates it from adult Great Spotted and Syrian , as well as Three-toed and female Lesser Spotted . |
| 24 | Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other . |
| 25 | For those of us who fret about ways in which modern technology distances us from understanding this programme was a revelation . |
| 26 | They grew a new ‘ ear ’ on her stomach with grafts taken from her thighs ; the scab on the superficially burnt left side of her face lifted off almost in one piece , leaving behind the flawless pink skin of a teenager ; but even after a year in hospital and scores of painful grafts , the right side of her face was hideously scarred , her hair and eyebrows never grew again and a plastic plate fitted over her carbonized skull prevented her from wearing a wig . |
| 27 | Only her spinning head prevented her from rising and leaving at once . |
| 28 | As Bill has sharpened his image to match his growing political fortunes , so Hillary cast aside her intellectual reserve to transform herself from a dowdy schoolma'am type in heavy glasses to a glamorous , designer-dressed head-turner who would grace any State function . |
| 29 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 30 | ‘ Strum Guard ’ is a term used solely by Joe Strummer to describe the bandana taped around his right hand to protect it from his own vigorous guitar-flailing . |