Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] me from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Anything you can suggest as a remedy to prevent me from parting with my few remaining strands of hair will be welcome . |
| 3 | I need a different kind of exorcism to free me from what he did to me . |
| 4 | He then called a security guard ( who wore no uniform , and looked like the type of character I would want a security guard to protect me from ) . |
| 5 | PAMELA : [ interrupting ] Aye , but on a Thursday was your poor Pamela baptised , on a Thursday my lady took me from my parents into her protection . |
| 6 | I asked the management to release me from my contract . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Heaven preserve me from all women ; they 're nothing but a damned nuisance when they try to ensure my number-one driver is handicapped before the race has even started ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Poverty prevented me from thinking that all is well under the sun and in history , ’ he wrote in 1958 , the year after he received the Nobel Prize . |
| 9 | Here 's Darwin saying in a letter to a friend Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a tendency to progression and indeed , Darwin 's view was the contrary to this , and here 's another quote from Darwin , after long reflection , I can not avoid the conviction that no innate tendency to development exists . |
| 10 | It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water . |
| 11 | Four key members of my original team joined me from Hawker Siddeley and we started work on the first batch of 25 robots . |
| 12 | Dear agony aunt , said Lydia in her head , I have a person staying with me whose presence disinclines me from food . |
| 13 | The coolness of the water roused me from my reverie , and I left the bath and decided to telephone Toby Greenslade . |
| 14 | It was only a week later , with the district still in the iron grip of winter , that my bedside phone jangled me from slumber . |
| 15 | There were indeed some who shook their heads and moaned , but on the whole buoyancy , bullishness and general enthusiasm hit me from all sides . |
| 16 | Next time you rush into my arms you wo n't have any trouble distinguishing me from my partner . ’ |
| 17 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 18 | And while the memory of stumbling through a huge — and previously unseen — boggy area on the North York moors in search of a mischievous mutt saves me from getting too romantic about foggy days , they are n't a write off . |
| 19 | I thought about leaving a few of Simon 's visiting cards around , or suggesting they all get together and build a glider in the loft , but then I saw the frosty-eyed Matron in a blue uniform and matching hair rinse clocking me from behind the desk . |
| 20 | My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps , suspended in midair by anti-gravity . |
| 21 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 22 | The same consideration stopped me from butting the animal ; I was n't going to put my face near those teeth . |
| 23 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 24 | Over the airwaves and under the sea , or however his quavering voice reaches me from LA , I hear S. O. Letterman . |
| 25 | Anyhow , my alcohol affected state prevents me from recalling the fee we paid Swindon ? |
| 26 | Modesty prevents me from spelling out which Member introduced it . |
| 27 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |
| 28 | Then a communication reached me from a newly-formed organization called the British Council , which rio one , including some of its officials , seemed to know much about . |
| 29 | Monica Shorten : ‘ My only regret is that the rival claims of the science departments and university clubs and social life distracted me from taking full advantage of my time in such an interesting community . ’ |
| 30 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |