Example sentences of "[verb] us from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As before , successful attention switching depends upon careful preparation , having the techniques and the subjects to which to attend at our fingertips ready to distract us from negative or irrational thought . |
| 2 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 3 | ‘ You joined us from Central Records , I see . |
| 4 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 5 | He added : ‘ I think it is marvellous he kept on supporting us from inside prison . ’ |
| 6 | It is the capacity to feel , to reflect , to regret , to repent that distinguishes us from other creatures . |
| 7 | It also claims our allegiance because it offers to protect our lives , limbs , and property , although it does little to protect us from predatory corporations . |
| 8 | If , for many years , tears have been frozen in order to protect us from intense pain , the process of thawing out may require great delicacy and sensitivity . |
| 9 | Thomas Mayer and his son , Thomas Walton Mayer of Newcastle-under-Lyme , sent to every veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom the draft of a memorial addressed to the governors of the London College , with the ultimate objective of gaining a Charter of Incorporation ‘ to protect us from illiterate and uneducated men , and to afford us the same privileges and exemptions which other professional bodies possess ’ . |
| 10 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 11 | ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts . |
| 12 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 13 | And there 's , towards the end of the first chapter there 's a bit all about erm erm er temptation and deliver us from evil kind of thing which is obviously rather from the , from the Lord 's Prayer and yet it 's , rather explained rather nicely and it , it 's a lovely , lovely book ! |
| 14 | If we are indeed a unique species then many of the behaviours which differentiate us from other animals are likely to be due to our genetic make-up rather than to cultural conditioning ; but the difficulty is to know just what these animal-human characteristics might be . |
| 15 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 18 | Whibley 's effectiveness can be measured by the fact that he retained his position on the Palace flank while assisting us from Southern League also-rans to 3rd Division champions , and to a dignified place in Division Two . |