Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 2 | ( Corney & Barrow sell it from 12 Helmet Row , London , EC1 ; tel : 071 251 4051 ) . |
| 3 | These days Konitz plays everything from standards to samba — he 's recently recorded a wonderfully relaxed album with Brazilian accompanists , Lee Konitz in Rio — and he 's shortly to tour the UK . |
| 4 | Very few enjoy a personal pension very few enjoy an occupational scheme the greater majority gain nothing from SERPS only one in six receive a full state pension . |
| 5 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 6 | As they strolled deeper into the gardens she became aware that the Pantominteatret was by no means the only form of free entertainment , as their progress led them from one area of performance to another . |
| 7 | Linium Got it from down the chemist . |
| 8 | So your mum got it from er Spectrum . |
| 9 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bantam moved him from a Christmas slot to this summer place last year in an attempt to increase his sales , but this summer the horror leads appear more plentiful , making it a tougher market . |
| 12 | Scientists face a constant struggle to segregate themselves from the inducements offered by governments , pressure groups and publishers , all of which may provide alternative sources of funding and prestige to those of their colleagues . |
| 13 | Do n't allow noise to distract you from your work — or rob you of sound sleep . |
| 14 | She felt her inability to demand anything from him , to need to demand anything from him , was a mark of failure . |
| 15 | This was a puzzlement , and he was glad he had the soothing spectacle of Midnight Mass to distract him from it . |
| 16 | Dorothy 's own attempt to preserve something from those final Somerset months produced a document more private , but hardly less remarkable . |
| 17 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 18 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 19 | One woman from Ollerton was imprisoned in Risley Remand Centre after joining a picket line in breach of a bail condition prohibiting her from doing so . |
| 20 | Travis produced them from his pocket and dropped them into her palm , carefully avoiding touching her . |
| 21 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 22 | No black on wings and no long trailing legs distinguish them from all other large white birds in flight . |
| 23 | Island craftsmen make everything from leather goods and raffia to local pottery and beautiful hand-made jewellery using the famous Majorcan pearls . |
| 24 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 25 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 26 | Deep Sea fishing offers everything from conger eel to codling , even the occasional shark . |
| 27 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 28 | Barat then returns , encounters Travers , and succeeds in imitating Marie and obtaining the meat in order to perform a bizarre ritual to preserve it from theft : ( To touch both arse and cunt three times ) |
| 29 | He argues that his work is not Edwardian in projection , that his pictures borrow something from other eras , but have a buoyant vitality that is of their own time . |
| 30 | With a small , helpless moan she surrendered to the muscular arms tightening like a vice about her , gazing up at his hawk-like features thrown into sharp , dramatic relief by the pale moonlight , and trembling at the dangerous gleam in the eyes devouring her from beneath their heavy lids . |