Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And so , ’ I continue , ‘ the suntan becomes fashionable and it 's no longer as necessary as it was — taking Robinson Crusoe by way of example — to hide from it under a parasol in order to conserve that fairness of skin threatened by the desert island climate . |
| 2 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 3 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 4 | In fact , such was the response to our initial soundings that we now wish to broaden the discussions to include a much larger audience and would therefore be keen to hear from anyone with a view to express or , an interest in this area . |
| 5 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |