Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] us from " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Zissler said : ‘ We scoured the building until Tracey spotted two eyes watching us from behind a pile of papers . |
| 2 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 3 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 4 | In Zurich we have prevailed upon the promoters to move us from caravans in the car park into a hotel . |
| 5 | None of us expected the hospital workers to save us from Thatcher , and yet they tried harder than most . |
| 6 | I consider that I B M strives to be a good employer and that it 's long established belief in respect for the individual has shaped our personal policies to reflect these needs within our community , and for example , our equal opportunity principles prevent us from considering race , colour or sex , when offering someone employment or promotion . |
| 7 | What in our political and cultural traditions prevent us from having a ‘ pro-people ’ health service — and society for that matter ? |
| 8 | Sometimes it has to be done but , even then , two things separate us from our attackers . |
| 9 | What with the cacophony of sounds assailing us from all sides and the crowd of shoppers jostling and pressing between and around us , this reply may not give him a very clear indication of where I am standing . |
| 10 | Only our deplorable ignorance of Carthaginian and Parthian jokes prevents us from assessing the local reactions to " pergraecari " , a word which Festus explains as " epulis et potationibus inservire " ( p. 235 L. ) . |
| 11 | … The want of ideas of their real essences sends us from our own thoughts , to the things themselves . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've had a trickle of players joining us from Squashtec , ’ says Durham 's general manager Nick Clifford . |
| 13 | At any rate such verses prevent us from supposing that only with modernism could fruitful contact with Virgil be resumed , or that late-Victorian Virgilianism was the perquisite of Alfred Lord Tennyson . |
| 14 | For once we had height advantage , possibly only 300 or 400 feet , but sufficient , I believe , for their top mainplanes to conceal us from their pilots ’ sight . |
| 15 | The Chair of the Moldovan parliament , Aleksandru Moshanu , reiterated Snegur 's views , and urged that Moldova should identify itself with Romania , dropping the term " Moldovan people " which was " dogma imposed by the [ Soviet ] colonizers to separate us from the Romanians " . |
| 16 | Nothing was said , but we all knew he had gone against his own convictions to save us from the pain of losing his company and his vital support . |
| 17 | The stored up sunshine and seasalt in our pores saved us from having another attack of the dreaded ‘ flu that winter , although we had also used very much potassium permanganate in our sinks and drains , as the health authorities asked . |