Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 2 | A year ago , Everton 's only hope of salvaging anything from a miserable season evaporated when they lost at Stamford Bridge in an FA Cup tie . |
| 3 | For instance , in the squatting ‘ demoiselle ’ Picasso had dislocated and distended the various parts of the body in an attempt to explain it as fully as possible , without the limitations of viewing it from a single , stationary position . |
| 4 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 5 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 6 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 7 | The latter offer yet another way of affecting the output power of the S120 ; the amount of variation available means that the amp is capable of offering anything from a humble 8 watts per channel to a fairly mighty 60 watts per side . |
| 8 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 9 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 10 | He credits Gwen and the Lovejoy series for rescuing him from a wasted life of bed-hopping , booze and drugs . |
| 11 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 12 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 13 | In relation to our " design-and-society " problem , design , in rending itself from the social fabric and attempting to construct itself as an independent discipline — and having constructed its own pantheon of values and principles with only tangential relation to the social — becomes , quite literally , socially unintelligible . |
| 14 | Imperial Airways had difficulty in extricating themselves from the ensuing row . |
| 15 | Under the guidance of Nehemiah and his successors the Jews were intent on isolating themselves from the surrounding nations . |
| 16 | This lining can be fitted to the outer curtain by hanging it from the same curtain hooks ( fig. 26a ) , or from the base of the glider on a track with combined hook/gliders ( fig. 26b ) . |
| 17 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |
| 18 | Even if an ineffective treatment does not in itself cause damage it may harm patients by raising false expectations or by deflecting them from a better treatment , so this criterion would leave virtually all unproved treatment open to investigation . |
| 19 | These are usually studied by separating them from a crushed rock with heavy liquids , notably tetrabromoethane , which is extremely toxic . |
| 20 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 21 | Secret As soon as the first four figures — 1978 are written down , you obtain the final result by subtracting one from the right hand figure and adding it to the front . |
| 22 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 23 | I did get around this by approaching it from the other side : I added gain to the clean modes and it all came together well . |
| 24 | We may most easily reveal the power of these influences on Dicey 's thought by posing what from a contemporary perspective seems to be a major difficulty with Dicey 's theory : how do we reconcile the twin principles of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law ? |