Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 2 | Uplift yourself from your lower self , even as an elephant draws himself up from a muddy swamp . |
| 3 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 4 | Libya barricaded itself off from the outside world yesterday to ‘ mourn ’ the sixth anniversary of the American air raids on Tripoli and Benghazi , mounted in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin night club in which two American soldiers died . |
| 5 | Local legend said that the animal used these to hang itself up from a low-hanging branch of a tree at night . |
| 6 | Many people carry out interviews and write them up from a social point of view . |
| 7 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 8 | Hereford were hoping to be the giantkillers against Wimbledon … it takes something special to stop Vinny Jones and his men … one up from the first leg … the premiership side took control of this one with an early goal from Neal Ardley … |
| 9 | I hope this little titbit of news about the crews that were formed and especially the ones of Rivetus because that is what you 're writing about , since he was the only one back from the Hundredth Bomb Group but how well we knew him in training since the two crews trained together and of course the flying part of it and myself have coordinated our flying with our co-pilots , we used to , just the two of us go up , and we would actually fly a circle around one plane over another , so one plane was and the other plane would fly circles around it and keeping up with it and this calls for close teamwork between the pilot and the co-pilot because as you 're keen and went into view and and then of course we switched roles and I would become the leader and he 'd fly circles around me , training with his co-pilot . |
| 10 | But always some clerk would gather them up and shower them back from an upper window . |
| 11 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 12 | In this case the simplest solution is to copy them back from the original installation disks — see Copying QBasic . |
| 13 | We are still drying them out from a recent visit to the laundry . |
| 14 | Although , as we saw for Pakistanis in Rochdale , the culture of immigrants may separate them out from the white community , the children of immigrants will gradually become assimilated into white society , into the wider working class and some , by upward mobility , into the middle classes . |
| 15 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 16 | She stared grimly ahead , carefully shutting herself off from the cold wind that suddenly blew around her heart . |
| 17 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 18 | But Scotland also suffered from internal religious differences , and from the effects of the Navigation Acts after 1660 that cut her off from a good deal of overseas trade . |
| 19 | Richard 's voice cut into her thoughts as he took her arm to draw her back from a horse-drawn carriage laden with tourists on a sightseeing trip . |
| 20 | Something in their need of her pulled her back from the seductive slide into oblivion . |
| 21 | She clasped her daughter 's hand in despair , as if she would pull her back from the falsely-beckoning light . |
| 22 | Claire Samways blasted the ball off Alison Vance , the Portadown keeper , but it fell to Jeanette Turner loitering at the post and she spun on the ball firing it in from an acute angle . |
| 23 | If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides . |
| 24 | But they help with specifics : targeting , organisations , thinking it through from a fresh perspective . ’ |
| 25 | She read it out from the printed page . |
| 26 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 27 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |
| 28 | The children are going to have them at home anyway , so if the teachers deny themselves this extra resource , and deny themselves the experience which the children can bring , I think they 're cutting themselves off from a tremendous source of encouragement and motivation . |
| 29 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 30 | I shut myself off from the female race and channelled all my energy into my work . |