Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps a strategy for dissuading him from coming round so often . |
| 2 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 3 | ‘ And disappointment in your parents , too , for keeping it from you . ’ |
| 4 | There was silence for a moment , then he said huskily , ‘ Leonora — look , there 's no easy way to say this , but I hope you 're not full of some quixotic notion about keeping it from me if you find out you 're pregnant . ’ |
| 5 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 6 | But Shallis argues that this is hardly surprising , because its very terms of thought are such as to exclude it from the content of all discussion , at the very outset . |
| 7 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
| 8 | On another occasion Pauline Jordan cashed a Giro cheque for £330 after stealing it from her mother 's house , the court heard . |
| 9 | Last summer , after joining them from Northants , the Hull-born seamer and world-record-holding non-batsman had a dispiriting time which left him with only 23 Britannic Assurance Championship wickets at a cost of almost 49 runs apiece . |
| 10 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
| 11 | In the " Lady Chatterley " case Mr Justice Byrne instructed his jury to consider the total effect of the work after reading it from cover to cover . |
| 12 | Researchers also managed to trap the ethyl radical , C 2 H 5 , another classic organic intermediate , after preparing it from a precursor containing carbon dioxide . |
| 13 | There is an overwhelming case for giving the D.O. , the most important unit in the whole machine , more responsibility , and for saving him from dancing attendance on Residents who notoriously dodge responsibility . |
| 14 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 15 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 16 | I have to thank you , Jenny , for saving me from an almost certain accident . |
| 17 | By the end of this scene , however , Terentia expresses fulsome gratitude to Dycarbas for saving her from an uncle who had wanted to steal her inheritance . |
| 18 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 19 | The result was that Teshigawara made Belfast the first priority of his UK tour for the Japan Festival — not an easy thing to do , given that the settings will take two whole days to set up , with a further day for transporting them from Britain . |
| 20 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 21 | The older tendency to classify muscles according to their probable functions is giving way to a system of naming them from their positions , origins and insertions . |
| 22 | Mr Mayhew 's costs , well into seven figures , were funded by Cazenove , which now stands a good chance of recouping them from tax-payers . |
| 23 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 24 | But instead of protecting her from attack , this mask forced the gas at her , rushing it up into her face with a sinister hissing . |
| 25 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 26 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 27 | That , that kind of er that kind of alienates us from |
| 28 | And half way through the second act , when Ptolemy accused Caesar of driving him from his palace and Caesar said , ‘ Go , my boy , I will not harm you ; but you will be safer away , among your friends , here you are in the lion 's mouth ’ , Stella imagined St Ives spoke more severely than usual . |
| 29 | ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 30 | This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |