Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from the [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 | Huge golden canopies shielded them from the 100-degree heat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 6 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 7 | Strong hands lifted her from the rocking horse , and sat her on the table . |
| 8 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 9 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 10 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |
| 13 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 18 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He sat back and released her from the probing examination , meeting her gaze more normally . |
| 23 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 24 | And they like the computer teacher he wo he se he taught us from the very beginning step by step , or even how to plu plu push the plug in . |
| 25 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |
| 26 | Beccaria 's unwillingness to allow individual differences — whether in terms of personal characteristics or socio-economic position — to enter into considerations of punishment , also distanced him from the positivist version of human manipulability . |
| 27 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 28 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 29 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 30 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |