Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 2 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 3 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 4 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 5 | The pair were quizzed over the abduction of a woman who underwent a terrifying 15-hour ordeal after calling a cab to collect her from a pub . |
| 6 | A seminar to take you from the fundamentals of Data Communications to the most advanced techniques implemented today — in just 3 days |
| 7 | Actress Helena Bonham Carter is the latest victim of obsession , she is asking a court to protect her from a fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 8 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 9 | When it comes to the end of that subordinate clause , you need a comma to separate it from the main clause , which is then going to follow . |
| 10 | The usual way to overcome this problem is to cover the specimen with a liquid to protect it from the vacuum and then increase the power of the electron beam so that it can penetrate the protective fluid . |
| 11 | But it is extremely unreasonable to suppose that all ( perhaps any ) human beings act from that motivation , either , and if morality is to be a generally human phenomenon , it is simply a mistake to equate it from the beginning with such exigently Kantian formulations , and it is a mistake even from the point of view of the human sciences . |
| 12 | Surprisingly light and nimble , he jumped out and extended a hand to help her from the rocking boat . |
| 13 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 14 | In particular , he reversed his previous position that Greece would recognize Macedonia if it adopted a prefix to distinguish it from the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 15 | It was like a fog to see it from the main road . |