Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 2 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 3 | You owe it to yourself to extract yourself from your present situation and reassess your life . |
| 4 | Five people who 've been nominated for awards are not available to receive them from her Royal Highness . |
| 5 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 6 | The capitalist economy , while ensuring the continuance of the peasant sector , does not allow it to develop sufficiently to extricate itself from its subordinate role , for this would destroy its value for capitalism . |
| 7 | Still drugged with sleep , struggling to free herself from her half-dreaming state , Isabel 's eyes snapped open just as Guy released her mouth . |
| 8 | We now have to buy it from our petty cash . |
| 9 | It is also wide open to fraud , because many people who are not entitled to a discount may try to claim one from their local authority . |
| 10 | to draw me from my strangling circle , |
| 11 | You expect me to detach myself from my non-bourgeois essence … to honour your gods , your fathers , your Revolution … |
| 12 | As the first land-based creatures would need a tougher , armoured skin to protect them from their new environment , it is likely that these were the first amphibians . |
| 13 | She tries to prise them from my invisible grasp . |
| 14 | The categorization of individuals by position in the hierarchy and group membership made it impossible for an individual to divorce himself from his social role . |
| 15 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 16 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
| 17 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 18 | We had to move from Renishaw Road to a smaller house in Thorne Road at the other end of Nottingham , a move dictated by financial considerations , but which in a way pleased Mother as it helped to distance her from her old set of friends . |
| 19 | Where is that thieving , sneaking hag who thought to oust me from my rightful inheritance ? ’ demanded the strident tones of Mrs Araminta Quatt . |
| 20 | He never reacted hostilely to any such suggestion , except to say to me that she was difficult enough in a friendly association and matters might be worse ( his own words ) if he took any action to remove her from his political scene . |
| 21 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 22 | As I am aware that to remove it from its present location would leave an unwelcome gap in your own display , may I suggest that , if you are willing to lend it , we supply you with a full-size mounted or framed photograph of the original to take its place for the duration of our exhibition ? |
| 23 | Leaning forward , still shivering , wanting to be sick yet unable to raise anything from her empty stomach but an acrid bile which made her retch again , she attempted to find a chink somewhere in the blank wall , growing granite upon unyielding granite , around her . |
| 24 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 25 | Mrs Palmer-Radford 's other son , Oliver , aged six , only discovered what had happened after she failed to collect him from his Catholic prep-school , it emerged yesterday . |
| 26 | It was impossible to tell which from his expressionless gaze . |
| 27 | ‘ Even if you had n't been way out there , you had no right to make something from my personal life the grounds for dismissal . ’ |
| 28 | Current ideas of the structure of water visualize it as being composed of a random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds ( Figure 7 ) , some of which are strained or even broken , but with a general structure not unlike that which is found in ordinary ice , also known as hexagonal ice to distinguish it from its variant form , cubic ice , which is formed at lower temperatures . |
| 29 | This adjective , emphasizing its size , is inserted to distinguish it from his great organ ( sic ) , then standing in the theatre at Covent Garden ( which , incidentally , he left not to Smith but to John Rich ) . |
| 30 | The Conservatives under John Major tried to distinguish themselves from their Thatcherite past by stressing a commitment to quality public services . |