Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has sunscreens to protect you from the sun 's harmful rays , and a unique bio-collagen complex to nourish and moisturise . |
| 2 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 3 | Hundreds of black-headed gulls were also joining in the feast of freshly hatching insects , paddling over the waves to snatch them from the surface , whilst in the Island Bay we came upon three superb black terns , dipping and turning over the water . |
| 4 | A treaty was agreed in 1490 , although a concession was made to the Venetians to exempt them from the Staple . |
| 5 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 6 | We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | If this is an improvised one such as a pierced cake tin , without feet to raise it from the plate on which it drains , set it in the top of a basin , mixing bowl , saucepan , wide jar , or any vessel in which it will fit without actually resting on the bottom . |
| 9 | Designs based on these principles are known as linear voltage regulators to distinguish them from the kind of regulator we are going to investigate in this article . |
| 10 | He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes . |
| 11 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 12 | In too many cases telecoms authorities had persuaded their governments to defend them from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 13 | Deputations of pit brow lasses visited Parliament in the 1880s and in 1911 during campaigns by the miners and some coal owners to exclude them from the collieries . |
| 14 | The Kamchatkans , a people of eastern Siberia , used to employ the intestines of bears as face-masks to protect them from the glare of the sun ; and they used the sharpened shoulder-blade for cutting grass . |
| 15 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 16 | As the season progressed , so had the heat , and Huy and Merymose stood over the body with their heads wrapped in linen cloths to protect them from the sun . |
| 17 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 18 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 19 | The bus shuffles away , as my warm , snug , enticing home awaits , opening its arms to relieve me from the world outside . |
| 20 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 21 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The steel bars of the cage were enclosed by tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the elements , except for one side , which was open with just a simple lift bar to move before exit . |
| 24 | It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain . |
| 25 | The Chair of the Moldovan parliament , Aleksandru Moshanu , reiterated Snegur 's views , and urged that Moldova should identify itself with Romania , dropping the term " Moldovan people " which was " dogma imposed by the [ Soviet ] colonizers to separate us from the Romanians " . |
| 26 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 27 | Nothing was said , but we all knew he had gone against his own convictions to save us from the pain of losing his company and his vital support . |