Example sentences of "[v-ing] them from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 2 | Of course , such a device is doing more than protecting them from an over-exciting adventure ; it is also in a calmer way building up their anticipation of a real mystery . |
| 3 | Even if an ineffective treatment does not in itself cause damage it may harm patients by raising false expectations or by deflecting them from a better treatment , so this criterion would leave virtually all unproved treatment open to investigation . |
| 4 | Only a mass revolt by AFBD members — which is unlikely - or legal action by particularly aggrieved firms , for example the Commodity Trad ers ' Group , can prevent the great majority of those firms which wish to continue doing business with Americans from signing the commission 's order exempting them from the full rigour of its rules . |
| 5 | picking them from the muddy ground beneath tall trees . |
| 6 | For his part , Mr Gaunt claims that 38 of the 50 members who have signed the exemption order saving them from the full rigour of the CFTC 's rules say they do not like the agreement . |
| 7 | These are usually studied by separating them from a crushed rock with heavy liquids , notably tetrabromoethane , which is extremely toxic . |
| 8 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 9 | Nor did Hincmar say more about a king 's daughters : in Charlemagne 's later years , the political influence of his womenfolk ( mistresses as well as daughters ) at court had been notorious , but his successors had either used their daughters in marriage-alliances , or , more often , placed them in convents , either way removing them from the political centre . |
| 10 | Although the user thinks that they are deleting the material they are only really removing them from the current display list — all the text and graphics are still being held in the file . |
| 11 | To calculate its fictional arm 's length profits , a firm is supposed to assume it pays the same price ( the ‘ transfer price ’ ) for those imported bits that it would have done were it buying them from an unrelated company . |
| 12 | The charity , run by Pat Kerr , cares for destitute and deprived children , rescuing them from the unending poverty that is the lot for many people in these Third World countries and from broken and inadequate homes . |
| 13 | At home many people have a personal medication routine such as taking medications orally ; inhaling them from a nasal spray ; applying them to the skin ; putting medicated drops or ointment into the eye ; injecting them from a syringe ; inserting them in the form of a suppository into the rectum or in the form of a pessary into the vagina . |
| 14 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 15 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 16 | The others were trying to drive the protesters away , and a fight seemed likely to break out at any minute , until a pair of uniformed police constables appeared , and stood watching them from the other side of the street . |
| 17 | I have the impression that the novels of Phyllis Bottome are now little read , though I remember my mother borrowing them from the local library in Barnsley in the 1930s , and speaking of them with respect . |