Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 2 | Each generation of legionnaires was expected to carry forward the traditions and ethics of the Legion , handing them down from one man to the next . |
| 3 | That dropped me down from second place . ’ |
| 4 | We 'll cook somethin' up from this end . |
| 5 | The law protected farmers living near subsistence level who needed something to carry them over from one harvest to the next , especially if the harvest had been bad . |
| 6 | Instead … each student has become the owner of a collection of statements made by somebody else ( who had either created them or taken them over from another source ) . |
| 7 | The new Group C car , the C291 , carries nothing over from last year 's dominant C11 and packs an all-new 3.5-litre flat 12 to comply with new regulations governing the renamed World Sportscar Championship . |
| 8 | I wonder whether it might be useful to get somebody in from social services side anyway to help to identify some other problems that I 'm having |
| 9 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 10 | However many problems there may be , there is a natural human instinct to form relationships all through our lives , although occasionally one will find a recluse — someone who has deliberately cut himself off from human contact . |
| 11 | The face is continually seen hiding behind dark glasses , underwater goggles , and through a goldfish bowl , cutting himself off from those around him . |
| 12 | He immediately cuts himself off from those ambitious city men who try ‘ to win the palm , the oak , or bays , ’ emblematic of the rewards given for artistic , political and military achievement . |
| 13 | And he 'd er worked himself up from one lace machine until he 'd got twelve . |
| 14 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 15 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 16 | Or maybe we can simply cut them off from one another until they surrender . ’ |
| 17 | The royal couple were unpopular at court , inspired little personal loyalty even among those whose respect for the throne was greatest , and their mounting preoccupation with the haemophiliac Tsarevich — and devotion to Rasputin — cut them off from all but a minute family circle . |
| 18 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 19 | Rainwater , driven off the highway , fell in a solid wall that cut them off from any view of the outside world . |
| 20 | ‘ Dragging me off from that party . |
| 21 | The PAP share of the vote fell to 61 per cent from Lee 's 63 per cent in 1988 ( itself down from 65 per cent in 1984 ) . |
| 22 | Within sight of the goal , a whole generation cut itself off from all that was promised . |
| 23 | A recent demonstration of the 3M Computer Aided Retrieval system , which uses microfilm cartridges linked to a computer-generated indexing system , has suggested a cost-effective way forward here , which does not cut itself off from future DIP systems . |
| 24 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 25 | Next one down from twenty seven ? |
| 26 | Wine and cheese : one up from sweet sherry . |
| 27 | And Wendy Smart said : ‘ I hope I get something back from all this . |
| 28 | And now — ’ she made a typical high-jumpers ' gesture , that which marks them out from all other athletes , raising her arms and stretching her torso , as if taking off to challenge that dappled crossbar . |
| 29 | This effectively cut them out from higher education . |
| 30 | ‘ You do n't understand how Constance has cut herself off from all her friends . |