Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still not enough to tempt you from the tourist route ? |
| 2 | A big hat : with a brim large enough to protect you from the sun and the eyes of the curious , thus allowing you to look enigmatic when you 're merely asleep . |
| 3 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 4 | It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division . |
| 5 | The valley takes its name from the Entlen torrent , a tributary of the Little Emme , which races down to join it from the slopes of the Glaubenberg mount which separates this valley from the parallel valley in which lie the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes ( and the road from Brunig Pass . ) |
| 6 | How stupid she 'd been not to realise it from the start . |
| 7 | Each partner will have the right to inspect the firm 's books , but not to remove them from the place where they are agreed to be kept . |
| 8 | He wrenched the knife back and forth to free it from the planking . |
| 9 | They 've got enough from the stomach alone to kill him twice over and they 've still to separate it from the liver and muscles . |
| 10 | Taboos against touching , and against speaking the name of a dead person , are set up to protect them from the hostility of the dead as they see it . |
| 11 | They were out to get me from the start . |
| 12 | When a moth flies into range , it works out the exact speed and position of its victim and then flies out to pluck it from the air . |
| 13 | She ought n't to learn it from the police or the television news . ’ |
| 14 | It 's a very simple matter and it it , there 's no so even if the jury are about to hear it from the witness . |
| 15 | It must be the nearest thing you could get to Lord Ismay … it was just the tip how to run it , how to manage it from the Government point of view . |
| 16 | He did n't pull his weight , but knew how to keep it from the consultants . |
| 17 | These volumes are aimed to provide serious students with the rudiments of the craft , and yet to launch them from the craft into inspired practice . |
| 18 | A spokesman said detectives hoped that if the suspects were not the terrorists they — or someone who recognised them — would come forward to eliminate them from the inquiry . |
| 19 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |