Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 3 | At midday six guerrilla fighters arrive to help them from a military base near to their village . |
| 4 | When you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills . |
| 5 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 6 | About ten years later , although the clock said differently , she appeared , eyes trying to adjust themselves from the strong sunlight to the shady cool of the bar . |
| 7 | The phrase ‘ Protocols-style ’ carries a critical rhetoric , suggesting that the authors wished to distance themselves from the traditions of the conspiracy theory . |
| 8 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 9 | It is not restitutionary because these defendants have received nothing from the investors and so have nothing that they can restore . |
| 10 | It shows that the street has been given to the car and attempts have been made to adjust the child : on finding that the child can not be adjusted parents have removed it from the street . |
| 11 | It 's a new secret organization of nationalists and patriots working to free us from the French ! " |
| 12 | A hidden mechanism activates , ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge . |
| 13 | There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend . |
| 14 | The glee with which an upward blip in house prices has been greeted hardly suggests that Britons have weaned themselves from the inflation habit . |
| 15 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 16 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 17 | Scottish fishermen 's leaders sought to distance themselves from the threat of direct action . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her children had to love her from a distance — |
| 20 | Not that the early issues had learnt anything from the underground . |
| 21 | Jazzbeaux had left some of her stuff in the cabin , confident that the twittering , birdlike manager would be too afraid of the ‘ pomps to bother lifting anything from the gangcult . |
| 22 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 23 | Players were encouraged to exaggerate the portamento and vibrato features of their instruments to help distinguish them from the wind sections ( 11 ) . |
| 24 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |
| 25 | Indeed , most Tories sought to distance themselves from the actions of their own supporters amongst the rank and file . |
| 26 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 27 | In April 1891 he attended a conference of Unitarian churches in London and heard Ben Tillett [ q.v. ] deliver a harsh attack on how the existing churches had alienated themselves from the working man . |
| 28 | She had not worn either of them before and they were two years old , dresses she had bought before events had changed her from a very easygoing , happy person into a creature armed for defence . |
| 29 | To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life . |