Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you gain strength , skill , and confidence you can take on more and more ; but if you start off overcommitted , it may be difficult to extricate yourself from an impossible mess . |
| 2 | Celtic3 St Johnstone1 CELTIC overpowered St Johnstone and remain on course to salvage something from an indifferent season . |
| 3 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 6 | Having reduced Helena to tears by refusing her a kiss on his departure for the wars , he has , you notice , to check himself from an involuntary lunge forward to comfort her . |