Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 2 | Miss Julie Stott , 27 , from Eccles , Manchester , was walking back to her hotel with a friend , Mr Peter Ellis , 27 , when a man attacked them from a passing car . |
| 3 | Huge golden canopies shielded them from the 100-degree heat . |
| 4 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 5 | ‘ WAS IT ONE OF THEM IN-DEPTH things you have to really think about ? ’ asked the cabbie who drove me from A Hard Heart . |
| 6 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 7 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 8 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 9 | The burning midday sun roused him from a feverish sleep . |
| 10 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 11 | Strong hands lifted her from the rocking horse , and sat her on the table . |
| 12 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 13 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 14 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 15 | ‘ She telephoned me from a public call-box somewhere . |
| 16 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 17 | They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions . |
| 18 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |
| 19 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 20 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 21 | She moved house and with the cooperation of the new local head teacher changed Tom 's mainstream school , and withdrew him from the off-site unit . |
| 22 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 23 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 24 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 25 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 26 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 27 | He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me . |
| 28 | Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again . |
| 29 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 30 | He sat back and released her from the probing examination , meeting her gaze more normally . |