Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] me from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 2 | He wanted to withdraw our organization 's financial support for the conference , and tried to discourage me from remaining involved . |
| 3 | I adopted a pose of cynicism — armour designed to protect me from ever feeling vulnerable again . ’ |
| 4 | I did indeed see him as a kind of Christ figure , perhaps as someone who had come to save me from myself , from my ineradicable loneliness of mind and soul . |
| 5 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 6 | Frankie had seen it before and thought I would n't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in . |
| 7 | ‘ They never tried to dissuade me from marrying you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The owner tried to stop me from boarding the yacht . |
| 9 | I 've accepted that she tried to stop me from becoming an artist . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me why you tried to prevent me from finding out that I was a Corosini . ’ |
| 11 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 12 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 13 | SOMEWHERE OUT THERE my Rose is searching to liberate me from my prison of love . |
| 14 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 15 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 16 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 17 | ‘ This situation has meant me not being able to get the sort of access to my daughter I want because the fact that the interdict is still in place has been used to prevent me from getting increased access . ’ |
| 18 | She immediately arranged to buy me from my master . |
| 19 | Because I 'm sure you wo n't try to cross me from now on . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll have to direct me from here . ’ |
| 21 | This time she started to interrogate me from the very beginning . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't try to stop me from punishing this ingrate , Brien . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , and got what he 'd refused to tell me from his wife . |
| 24 | yes , alright , I , you 'll have to ban me from cutting your loaf , you 'll have to do it , you will . |
| 25 | Similarly , if I treat someone 's urgent need of money solely as an opportunity to buy cheap from him , you may well doubt whether I am aware of more than the fact that he is in trouble , and try to rouse me from my callousness : ‘ How would you feel if I did that to you ? ’ |
| 26 | You try to separate me from her in any way and I 'll do murder . |
| 27 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 28 | Where is that thieving , sneaking hag who thought to oust me from my rightful inheritance ? ’ demanded the strident tones of Mrs Araminta Quatt . |
| 29 | I often ring at this time of the night for a chat , it helps to stop me from going spare . |
| 30 | When I 'm happy I 'm a wonderful person to be with , but if anyone tries to keep me from doing what I want to do then I 'm … ’ |