Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 2 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 3 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 4 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 5 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 6 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 7 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 8 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 9 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 10 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 13 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 14 | Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop . |
| 15 | I did n't believe he 'd got anything from the card . |
| 16 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 17 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
| 18 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 19 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 20 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 21 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 22 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 23 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 24 | I thought she 'd fetched it from the bedroom . |
| 25 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 26 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 27 | While Maureen , who raised the alarm , began to detach herself from the child she had taken home , returning it briefly to hospital , Marie held the infant she called Gemma tightly to her . |
| 28 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 29 | Thus the church , the corporation , and the gentry began to divorce themselves from the bull-running . |
| 30 | Admittedly , after the initial euphoria following the passing of the 1885 act , some like Butler began to distance themselves from the purity movement . |