Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] from the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 2 | The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present . |
| 3 | Now if you two charming ladies , and Herbert here , can persuade your betters to free you from the chains for an hour or two , we 're as good as on our way ! ’ |
| 4 | The result was that the economy was in the grip of a crisis which could only be resolved by adopting measures to free it from the constraints of autarchy . |
| 5 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 6 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 7 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 8 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 9 | It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain . |
| 10 | Then he closed the eyes of the boy with the broken neck , and placed a coat over him to keep him from the eyes of the students he would never get to know . |
| 11 | He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone . |
| 12 | He would also fight tooth and nail to keep her from the likes of Tommy Allen . |
| 13 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 14 | Linfield needed a gifted player to lift them from the doldrums after a disappointing start to the league campaign which prompted Bowyer 's dismissal . |
| 15 | More than that , she nearly died to save you from the results of your own jealousy and spite . |
| 16 | In too many cases telecoms authorities had persuaded their governments to defend them from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 17 | A seminar to take you from the fundamentals of Data Communications to the most advanced techniques implemented today — in just 3 days |
| 18 | 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 . ) |
| 19 | Otherwise we put the continuity of vital work in jeopardy by failing to shelter it from the winds of international currency exchanges . |
| 20 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 21 | During a series of meetings with US President Bush , the US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and the US Secretary of State James Baker , Moiseyev was informed that the USA would refuse to accept the reclassification of three Soviet motorized divisions as naval coastal units so as to exempt them from the terms of the treaty [ see p. 38027 ] . |
| 22 | to distinguish them from the signs by which we are already combining elements of Q. The new symbols are sufficiently unfamiliar to remind us of their defining role but sufficiently similar to + and . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 24 | Apart from the fact that they have an arrest rate lower than that of some of the older generation , there seems nothing of substance to distinguish them from the founders of the DUP party . |
| 25 | He did not enumerate them , but it is not hard to reconstruct them from the records of over half a century of Masai administration . |
| 26 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 27 | Because perhaps — just perhaps — he was the one who 'd come to rescue her from the clutches of Spiderglass . |