Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its part is generally written in the treble clef on B or G to distinguish it from the side-drum . |
| 2 | He dreamt that Lucie threw him from the parapet of a bridge into deep water , with a stone statue of Garvey tied round his neck . |
| 3 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 4 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 5 | We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century . |
| 6 | Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany . |
| 7 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 8 | On the whole Cepheus is rather a barren group , but the presence of Delta and Mu redeems it from the viewpoint of the binocular observer . |
| 9 | ‘ She is a very sweet natured little thing , very non-aggressive , and Mia liked her from the very start , ’ said Marie . |
| 10 | He would also fight tooth and nail to keep her from the likes of Tommy Allen . |
| 11 | But then the sound of different voices came to his ears , and Carolyn called him from the french windows . |
| 12 | Abstraction and theory imprison us , or try to do so , as if in a net , and the novel tests and demolishes the allegedly superior power of abstract thought over a thinking and feeling life : ‘ how far conceptualizing and theorizing divide you from the thing that is the object of theoretical attention . ’ |
| 13 | Positive and negative pressures applied to straight edged polygons and polyhedra convert them from the crystalline forms of rocks and earths to the positive and negative , male and female , expressions of life . |
| 14 | She met Mr Carter , and married him , thinking he 'd be a good father for the children , but Hayley hated him from the start . |
| 15 | She was sifting desultorily through her work schedule when Adam rang her from the office . |
| 16 | The political influence of the other major radical figure , Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi , was drastically reduced when Rafsanjani removed him from the post of Interior Minister in his Cabinet reshuffle of August 1989 , following his election as President [ see pp. 36859-60 ] . |
| 17 | Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback . |
| 18 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |