Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A junior nurse on Folliott , the male medical ward , sat at her table , full of talk about one of their patients who had suffered an acute asthmatic attack and gone into respiratory failure , and how Dr Kent had grabbed him from the jaws of death . |
| 2 | Perhaps Mr Robinson had learnt something from them , or perhaps that woman ( I can not call her a wife ) had told him everything . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Williams agreed to get someone from Grand Met to meet all the landlords affected . |
| 4 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 5 | Yesterday , Mr Major battled to distance himself from the scandal which has already engulfed four Cabinet colleagues . |
| 6 | In the House of Commons Mrs Thatcher refused to disassociate herself from these comments , although she was invited to do so on three occasions . |
| 7 | Cantona 's nomadic journey though English football began last January , when Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis tried to sign him from Nimes . |
| 8 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 9 | Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stone blob into a 14-stone hunk . |
| 10 | And in the meantime , since he had spoken of things she ought to learn , she would see if he could tell her just what it was that women like Marie Moon and Audrey Covington-Pym did to stop themselves from bearing child after child after child . |
| 11 | Poor overweight Peter Horbury , the new Lord Woodleigh began to heave himself from his deckchair and then sank back into it . |
| 12 | Bill Francis had rung me from Marcus half an hour before I got back . |
| 13 | Nathalie Sarraute had never been prepared to accept his insistence on pure textuality , and both Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon sought to distance themselves from the increasingly over-rigid application of his theories . |
| 14 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
| 15 | In May 1947 , after mounting disagreements , the Communists refused to support the government in a vote of confidence and premier Paul Ramadier decided to expel them from office . |
| 16 | Indeed , at the Home Office Press Conference held to discuss the catastrophic crime figures for April to June 1990 , John Patten attempted to distance himself from the research by asking if Field was the member of his staff ‘ who wore an earring ’ ( Guardian 27.10.90 ) before stating that the work was exploratory and could not be regarded as definitive . |
| 17 | The Conservatives under John Major tried to distinguish themselves from their Thatcherite past by stressing a commitment to quality public services . |