Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 2 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop . |
| 5 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 6 | In his characteristic phrase , " I am their leader , I must follow them " — but he determined to follow them from the front . |
| 7 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 8 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 9 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 10 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 11 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 12 | They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds . |
| 13 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 14 | ‘ I bought them from Mr and Mrs Bumble , who had stolen them from the nurse , who had stolen them from Agnes , the dead girl . |
| 15 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 16 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 17 | They instantly felt less grown up , whereas Minton had encouraged them from the start to tackle imaginative work by giving them articles from Lilliput with the illustration blocked out and the instruction that they were to do their own . |
| 18 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 19 | The first revolution had liberated them from the oppression of the Tsarist regime and reinforced their perennial dream of autonomy … |
| 20 | Without a backward glance at Brooklands or the woman who stood watching them from the doorway , she pulled out into the flow of traffic , her tyres squealing on the loose gravel drive . |