Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 2 | ‘ How pleasant , then , for you to relax on this assignment , ’ Roman countered smoothly , a steely note beneath the surface , ‘ knowing that family friendship absolves us from the need for stiff formality . ’ |
| 3 | Codemasters ' director David Darling said : ‘ The fact that Sega has chosen to wait to sue until just before our commercial launch shows this is a blatant attempt to keep us from the market they control . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm not sure if David keep us from erm the building , we know then that there was no |
| 5 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 6 | PC Zissler said : ‘ We scoured the building until Tracey spotted two eyes watching us from behind a pile of papers . |
| 7 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
| 8 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 9 | The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be . |
| 10 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 11 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 12 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 13 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 14 | Maybe that 's why our law prevents us from adopting methods more than are sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 15 | In the winter of 1975 the council evicted us from our squat and those of us who formed the nucleus of that original women 's house were dispersed around the country . |
| 16 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 17 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 18 | In Zurich we have prevailed upon the promoters to move us from caravans in the car park into a hotel . |
| 19 | Frances joined us from PMD where she worked in marketing Bullion Products for two years , prior to that she had worked in marketing at the Financial Times . |
| 20 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 21 | Or the planet gets it ! ’ our jolly NME team jive us from the inside back cover of a recent ish . |
| 22 | Only one shower for the whole crew today , and just a curtain divides us from Pearl Jam . |
| 23 | In the 12 chapters the author takes us from a basic introduction to the design of synthesis , through the various methodologies , to a few selected total syntheses . |
| 24 | None of us expected the hospital workers to save us from Thatcher , and yet they tried harder than most . |
| 25 | Two pretexts were given for the failure to release us from the airport : that one of the mares wore a head-collar with an obviously masculine name embossed , and that one of the fillies ’ passports was stamped GONE TO STUD . |
| 26 | ‘ We had a young lad ringing us from Manchester . |
| 27 | In the next chapter I want to show some of the more insidious ways in which modernity stops us from seeing contemporaneity as the territory of the Enemy . |
| 28 | I consider that I B M strives to be a good employer and that it 's long established belief in respect for the individual has shaped our personal policies to reflect these needs within our community , and for example , our equal opportunity principles prevent us from considering race , colour or sex , when offering someone employment or promotion . |
| 29 | What in our political and cultural traditions prevent us from having a ‘ pro-people ’ health service — and society for that matter ? |
| 30 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |