Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 2 | This recommendation was not accepted , however , and the authorities still have to balance the need to provide access to the parks with the need to preserve them from the increased pressure that results . |
| 3 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 4 | Fit a suitable damp-proof membrane around the frame to isolate it from the surrounding masonry , then fit the frame in the opening . |
| 5 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 6 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 7 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 8 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
| 9 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 10 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 11 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 12 | situation I 'd suspect will be addressed within that other part , I did mention in my presentation that there are a number of inter-related problems here , I can trace about four or five , all of which have a chain reaction one upon the other , unfortunately Brandon is up front so we 've got to tackle it from the other direction . |
| 13 | It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis . |
| 14 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 15 | Surprisingly light and nimble , he jumped out and extended a hand to help her from the rocking boat . |
| 16 | Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius . |
| 17 | In 1557 the Tiber changed its course and Ostia Antica ( as it is termed to differentiate it from the modern Lido town ) is now a few kilometres inland and not on the riverside any more . |
| 18 | To differentiate it from the Carolingian revisions the Merovingian text has come to be called the Pactus Legis Salicae . |
| 19 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 20 | It 's faster to read data from the cache than to load it from the hard disk . |
| 21 | If that is the underlying proposition , it is important to dissociate it from the unacceptable idea that a person 's acts after loss of self-control should still be measured on an objective scale . |
| 22 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
| 23 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 24 | The intention is , or the hope , anyway , to detach it from the other explosives ? ’ |
| 25 | All sailors throughout the year need light , waterproof anoraks to protect them from the chilling effect of light spray in strong winds . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ? |
| 28 | As has already been mentioned , young children are particularly at risk , and they are dependent on adults to protect them from the potential dangers in their home environment . |
| 29 | The generally accepted reason was that the French coffers were nearly empty and he wanted to replenish them from the vast treasures of the Knights Templars . |
| 30 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |