Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 2 | ‘ How pleasant , then , for you to relax on this assignment , ’ Roman countered smoothly , a steely note beneath the surface , ‘ knowing that family friendship absolves us from the need for stiff formality . ’ |
| 3 | Codemasters ' director David Darling said : ‘ The fact that Sega has chosen to wait to sue until just before our commercial launch shows this is a blatant attempt to keep us from the market they control . ’ |
| 4 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 7 | The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be . |
| 8 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 9 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 10 | Maybe that 's why our law prevents us from adopting methods more than are sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 11 | In the winter of 1975 the council evicted us from our squat and those of us who formed the nucleus of that original women 's house were dispersed around the country . |
| 12 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 13 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 14 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 15 | Or the planet gets it ! ’ our jolly NME team jive us from the inside back cover of a recent ish . |
| 16 | Only one shower for the whole crew today , and just a curtain divides us from Pearl Jam . |
| 17 | In the 12 chapters the author takes us from a basic introduction to the design of synthesis , through the various methodologies , to a few selected total syntheses . |
| 18 | Two pretexts were given for the failure to release us from the airport : that one of the mares wore a head-collar with an obviously masculine name embossed , and that one of the fillies ’ passports was stamped GONE TO STUD . |
| 19 | ‘ We had a young lad ringing us from Manchester . |
| 20 | In the next chapter I want to show some of the more insidious ways in which modernity stops us from seeing contemporaneity as the territory of the Enemy . |
| 21 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 22 | No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road . |
| 23 | We go into a state of shock to protect us from the knowledge . |
| 24 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
| 25 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
| 26 | More recently we have learnt that the functioning of the immune system , that exquisitely coordinated mechanism protecting us from disease , is intimately tied in to levels of stress . |
| 27 | It does n't , but we were n't going to let our opposition to the territorial claim prevent us from talking . ’ |
| 28 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 29 | Gentleness keeps us from being caught up in the illusions of the world . |
| 30 | The iris diaphragm that opens and shuts the pupil prevents us from being dazzled in bright light , while allowing us to see in dim light . |