Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sections 6 and 7 of the UCTA override these provisions , and , in effect , provide for mandatory inclusion of such warranties in the contracts covered by these sections , since the easiest way to exclude liability for breach of such warranties is to exclude them altogether from the terms of the contract . |
| 2 | ‘ The key is train them properly from the word go , ’ Steve emphasised . |
| 3 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 4 | Oxford , at 34 , with coach Pat Sweeney urging them on from the Oxford launch , began to assert their full power off Duke 's Meadows , drawing ahead while Cambridge , at 35 , began to look vulnerable . |
| 5 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 6 | The element of playing to the gallery is conserved in the way they portray the fight as a piece of street theatre , with the adults cheering them on from the balconies , while the girls offer silent support , as the boys defend the honour of the white community against the ‘ black invasion ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 8 | It was a bad one for me right from the start when I got involved in the spinning at the first corner . ’ |
| 9 | More to give herself time to think than because she wished to know , she said to Constance , ‘ Perhaps you had better tell me right from the beginning , Constance . ’ |
| 10 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 11 | But he is flying in the face of opposition from the ruling Labour group who recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat saying it was too early to bring them in from the cold . |
| 12 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 13 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 14 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 15 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 16 | ‘ We put them in , me an ’ my friends , brought them down from the lake . |
| 17 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 18 | A plantation of 30,000 artificial palms would fundamentally shift cloud patterns near coastal deserts , drawing them overland from the sea . |
| 19 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 20 | You ca I ca n't hel I 'd I right from the day he walked in I did n't like him . |
| 21 | Staff members tried to keep them away from the soft-hearted President , consigning them to the Vice-president not because Bush was more callous , North explained , but because it was Reagan who had to make the policy decisions . |
| 22 | The hatchback also keeps them away from the big Volvos . |
| 23 | As Henry removed his coat and set his briefcase down , Maisie 's fingers , like demented spiders in a bath , ran this way and that , in any direction , it seemed , that might lead them away from the wistful logic of the melody . |
| 24 | However , wild horses could n't drag them away from the task in hand tonight , namely lowering the floor six feet with every beat . |
| 25 | An empty drink tube rolled between their feet as the jitney wheeled into motion , whisking them away from the cargo concourse and plunging into the tunnels of Plenty . |
| 26 | The Society has a unique collection of pre-grouping wagons and is very keen to store them away from the ravages of salt sea-spray , weather and vandals . |
| 27 | If you want to produce as many young as possible , it is best to hatch and rear them away from the parents . |
| 28 | An Elf war fleet led by Tyrion defeats the Norse in a huge sea battle and drives them away from the coast of Ulthuan . |
| 29 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 30 | I got mad , because they were so greedy , and tried to shove them away from the chair . |