Example sentences of "protect [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 2 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's being kind to you — protecting you from the truth . ’ |
| 5 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 6 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 7 | Well , she 'd spent most of her life flying solo , protecting herself from the rest of the world behind high barriers ; now , after risking and losing all in one fell swoop , she 'd simply have to set about the painful business of re-erecting those walls . |
| 8 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 9 | He realized it was shielding him , protecting him from the gunfire . |
| 10 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 11 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 12 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 13 | ‘ Her legs were bandaged in leather swathes , protecting her from the long , cruel needles of the prickly pear . |
| 14 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 15 | The machineheads are in the older Kluson style , with incredibly convenient slotted string posts for tucking those unwieldy string ends into , thus protecting oneself from the horrors associated with hypodermic guitar string injury . |
| 16 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |
| 17 | This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life . |
| 18 | They abandoned the ride and walked instead in the shade of the trees beside the track , but although this protected them from the sun 's rays the leaden heat was everywhere and there was no escaping it . |
| 19 | Regular use of a good cream helps keep hands soft and smooth and protects them from the onslaught of cold weather . |
| 20 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 21 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 22 | Earth Dwellers have now begun to grasp that they are tattering the ozone layer , which protects them from the harmful rays of their sun ( star 4135 in our heavens ) . |
| 23 | George protects himself from the stink of UB40 's ‘ witty ’ bile |
| 24 | Hospital doctors , with some marvellous exceptions , have clung to old patterns of training where the doctor protected himself from the patient 's feelings of panic and terror in the face of illness and death . |
| 25 | Their message to the politicians seems to be , ‘ We protected you from the JVP . |
| 26 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 27 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 28 | Product stability is the stability of the product stored in an inert , impermeable container with which it does not interact and which fully protects it from the ambient atmosphere . |
| 29 | Erm tin does n't rust and it protects it from the air and water , you get 'em |
| 30 | It immediately protects us from the impossible situation one meets in the literature with remarks such as : " The Aalenian of Mr X , which is the Bajocian of Mr Y , should in fact be regarded as part of the Toarcian " . |