Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] from [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 2 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 3 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 4 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 5 | When Manfro detached himself from the other men and came to walk by her side , Topaz glared at him . |
| 6 | This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties . |
| 7 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 8 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 9 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 10 | Several Conservative MPs repudiated the Group and Mrs Thatcher dissociated herself from the critical remarks . |
| 11 | The first two of these have , for different reasons , dissociated themselves from the causal-corrective concerns of traditional criminology . |
| 12 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 13 | Earlier , McWalters barrister , Hugh Vass , stressed his client 's ‘ exemplary character ’ and pointed out that letters of character reference included one from a retired police sergeant . |
| 14 | But then the sound of different voices came to his ears , and Carolyn called him from the french windows . |
| 15 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 16 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 17 | They remembered me from the old days . ’ |
| 18 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 19 | Without fumbling or undue haste , Rohan freed her from the silky folds . |
| 20 | She must have some radar , he thought , that at the last saved her from the worst effects of his anger and frustration . |
| 21 | The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley . |
| 22 | Word reached him of a Corsair in southern France , and after viewing the airframe , Harris purchased it from the French authorities for $ 1,000 , and shipped it to San Francisco in early 1974 . |