Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [pron] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Till my husband returns , and rescues me from this misery ! ’ |
| 2 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 3 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
| 4 | But this figure is an average and includes everyone from junior clerks to bosses who have earned as much as $22 million in the past . |
| 5 | Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources . |
| 6 | It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories . |
| 7 | Oxyhaemoglobin has a high affinity for NO and scavenges it from extracellular media ; methaemoglobin has no such action . |