Example sentences of "[noun] to protect [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has sunscreens to protect you from the sun 's harmful rays , and a unique bio-collagen complex to nourish and moisturise . |
| 2 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 3 | The issue is that , despite the information available , CSM took no action to protect patients from practolol at least from January to October 1975 ; and again took no action to protect them from benoxaprofen from October 1981 to August 1982 . |
| 4 | This pipe is usually a 25mm ( 1in ) diameter steel pipe , wrapped with special tape to protect it from rusting , and buried to protect it from frost . |
| 5 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 6 | In a bid to protect them from possible attack by Oswald and Eadbald , acting in collusion , Aethelburh sent the Deiran princes for greater protection to the Frankish king , Dagobert I , for fear specifically of Oswald and Eadbald ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 7 | Blockhouses were built in the fields , and sometimes the cattle were kept in fortified compounds to protect them from raiders . |
| 8 | Each collection features ten patterns for all the family in a clear lay-flat format with transparent plastic covers to protect them from machine oil and coffee stains . |
| 9 | Goering and Ribbentrop keep bodyguards to protect them from each other . |
| 10 | Towards the end of his life , he had to be surrounded by bodyguards to protect him from germs and from contact with reality . |
| 11 | Any windsurfers ( except novices ) will need summer wet suits and shoes to protect them from wind chill . |
| 12 | Its hard , tight-fitting husks act as armour to protect it from pests and diseases — a boon to farmers who do not want to use pesticides . |
| 13 | Cattle wore collars of rowan wood to protect them from spells and curses . |
| 14 | NEWSAGENTS will today be urged to back calls for a change in the law to protect them from becoming innocent victims of the law which prevents tobacco being sold to under-age youngsters . |
| 15 | This church , Santa Ephygenia was where the African slaves came to worship , to pray to the saint to protect them from the dreadful accidents they faced in the mines . |
| 16 | A unit of traditional authority survived indeed in the Church ; but that rather favoured the independent cities , for with few exceptions each had its own cathedral and its own bishop ; often its own patron saint to protect it against its neighbours . |
| 17 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 18 | He then called a security guard ( who wore no uniform , and looked like the type of character I would want a security guard to protect me from ) . |
| 19 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 20 | Central was a commitment to the universality of natural rights and the need to protect them by maintaining balanced systems of government in which concentrations of power were avoided . |
| 21 | There 's no need to protect him from me . |
| 22 | Some parishes followed this peripatetic approach , using a trestle table to facilitate mobility ; others , however , preferred to keep the table permanently in the middle of the chancel , sometimes surrounding it with rails to protect it from dogs . |
| 23 | He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes . |
| 24 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 25 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 26 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 27 | Alternatively , use a rug or foam mat to protect you from a hard floor . |
| 28 | Both their lorries were green , and so were their lead reins , anti-sweat sheets , buckets and bandages , and there were green braids on their splendid horses ' tails , which were left down until the last moment to protect them from the flies . |
| 29 | So get the checkout staff to wrap your plant in a paper or plastic sleeve to protect it from the wind . |
| 30 | It is perhaps not coincidental that the same Islanders , whilst wishing to keep their traditional forms of adoption , are also seeking legal security to protect them from undue interference from the natural family . |