Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So your mum got it from er Spectrum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Do n't allow noise to distract you from your work — or rob you of sound sleep . |
| 10 | She felt her inability to demand anything from him , to need to demand anything from him , was a mark of failure . |
| 11 | This was a puzzlement , and he was glad he had the soothing spectacle of Midnight Mass to distract him from it . |
| 12 | Dorothy 's own attempt to preserve something from those final Somerset months produced a document more private , but hardly less remarkable . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 17 | Deep Sea fishing offers everything from conger eel to codling , even the occasional shark . |
| 18 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 19 | 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 ) |
| 20 | Impatiently , Jezrael pushed the canopy back and an icy blast of wind snatched it from her grasp . |
| 21 | All the Suffolk sites have been designated ‘ open access ’ but the term covers anything from freedom to roam the entire area to footpath access alone , a CC spokesman said . |
| 22 | Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon . |
| 23 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 24 | The place of violence in English labour history has been reconsidered since the earlier historians , notably the Webbs and Hammonds , followed a Fabian predisposition to exclude it from the mainstream of labour action . |
| 25 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 26 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 27 | Midge 's total lack of emotion prevented him from sharing his own grief with her and he found that unbearable . |
| 28 | Mr Reynolds was also shown the ward day-room and introduced to other patients to help him settle down , but his anxiety about his condition prevented him from really relaxing . |
| 29 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 30 | His mouth prevented her from replying , violently possessing her lips while his hands roughly sought to drag off her bodice completely . |