Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 2 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 3 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 4 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 5 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 6 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 7 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 8 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 11 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 12 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 13 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 14 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 15 | The storms that threatened to pluck him from the summit where he stood barely rippled the grey waters of the lakes that were strung like pearls along the centre of the grassland far below . |
| 16 | In his characteristic phrase , " I am their leader , I must follow them " — but he determined to follow them from the front . |
| 17 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 18 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 19 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 20 | Only this managed to save him from the bullying which would otherwise visit a boy who practically lived within the works of Oscar Wilde . |
| 21 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |
| 22 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 23 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 24 | The woman 's blurred reflection appeared to haunt her from the centre of the glass . |
| 25 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 26 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 27 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 28 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
| 29 | The poor little cat had never got over its terror of flying , and Mildred always had to prise it from the broomstick whenever she arrived anywhere . |
| 30 | Her children had to love her from a distance — |