Example sentences of "[vb past] them from [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |
| 8 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 9 | Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again . |
| 10 | She patted down the earth in each pot , watered them from a slimy tin , arranged them in a row on the ledge , and darted back along the path to the house . |
| 11 | It is the result of a six-year trek around the world by the Kienholzes which took them from an Indian reservation in South Dakota to China and got them thinking about how the chance of one 's birth is all important in one 's life . |
| 12 | One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton ! |
| 13 | A sun umbrella sheltered them from the wan May sunshine . |