Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun prp] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hitchcock 's other daughter Stella watched in horror as her mother was slashed on the arms and face as she tried to protect Kelly from the attack . |
| 2 | First he would have pushed a strong diversionary force at Charleroi , then , when the allies moved to defend Brussels from the south , he would have launched the real attack to the west . |
| 3 | One evening I went to fetch Joe from the village pub , where my sister sometimes allowed him to smoke his pipe and have a beer . |
| 4 | It had plucked Mariana from the pillion seat , skittering her against the current like a flat stone skipped across a pond . |
| 5 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 6 | White had rescued Brown from the nose but Ainley was dead when they managed to get him out . |
| 7 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 8 | I had to save Jamila from the man who loved Arthur Conan Doyle . |
| 9 | Ronni had followed Guido from the room , running to keep pace with him as he headed across the hall . |
| 10 | For a moment the paralysis which had struck Neil from the moment that Havvie had begun his assault on her reputation was on him again . |
| 11 | He had barred Anne from the house after he had found out that the pair of them had spent an hour in the local pub after shopping one evening . |
| 12 | Yeltsin was rapturously accepted in Russia specifically as the ‘ Russian ’ leader who had liberated Russia from the communism foreign to it . |
| 13 | She had loved Connor from the day she set eyes on him ; and he loved her too , though as long as she was his brother 's wife , he would never admit it . |
| 14 | In Switzerland , though he met ‘ people of many nationalities , which I always like ’ , Eliot felt that he had released Vivienne from the strain of being with him . |
| 15 | Frederick planned to attack Lombardy from the east and west simultaneously , perhaps remembering the renowned pincer campaigns for which Charlemagne had been famous . |
| 16 | The crisis in the party increased on Aug. 11 when four of the six founding members of FORD attempted to suspend Odinga from the party . |
| 17 | He closed the doors again and stood watching Mariana from the companionway . |