Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv prt] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 2 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 3 | REUTERS is to make early payment of its 1992 final dividend so shareholders will not lose out from the new tax arrangements introduced in the Budget . |
| 4 | He added his own comments that Ashby 's tributes to voluntaryism present us with a very serious challenge — to the professional to be patient in service , to aid and abet but not to take over from the voluntary worker any of the tasks or decisions which he should do and make : to the voluntary worker to recognise that the only sure safeguard against injury to the mainstream of voluntaryism is that that mainstream , which is himself , shall never slacken . |
| 5 | It can not climb back from a vertical drop since it lacks the body diameter of the rabbit . |
| 6 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 7 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 8 | Friends do n't come back from the dead , Leila thought , rampaging through the corridor from the canteen . |
| 9 | Cal did n't turn round from the front seat , but Mrs Fry said , ‘ We could n't go on playing Scrabble in the rain when we knew you 'd gone off like that , and your parents sounded so dreadful on the phone . |