Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting in the wings , there was a young colleague of his from his museum days , Paul Spence , a sculpture man . |
| 2 | ‘ I wo n't keep you from yer work any longer . ’ |
| 3 | If that period has been broken , or if you work only part-time , the small print of the legislation might exclude you from its scope . |
| 4 | ‘ Removing you from her vicinity is the least I can do after bringing you here to betray her . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll ring you from her flat . |
| 6 | The only disconcerting thing about eating David Moore 's food — ‘ never cooked before July 1991 in my life ; you just need lots of cookbooks and a fertile imagination ’ — is that he can see you from his kitchen window . |
| 7 | Do n't allow noise to distract you from your work — or rob you of sound sleep . |
| 8 | Do n't let me keep you from your work . |
| 9 | Those weeks when I kept you from your work — did you mind ? |
| 10 | If so , please make sure that this does not distract you from your work . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't let me keep you from your work , ’ I say , and turn to go . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |
| 13 | Janice believed that misunderstanding or mistreatment in themselves , though undesirable , should not necessarily deflect you from your course . |
| 14 | ‘ I am ashamed that I have kept you from your rest , after so troublous a day . |
| 15 | Sometimes games which require concentrated thought can help distract you from your stress and anxiety . |
| 16 | Just pick him up , and throw him into the flames , and I 'll free you from your debt . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I hope I have n't kept you from your beach . ’ |
| 18 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 19 | ‘ We recognise you from your portrait , ’ said Melissa . |
| 20 | ‘ I recognised you from your photograph in front of the theatre , ’ the man said . |
| 21 | One day I 'm going to chop my through those rhododendrons and wake you from your hundred-year-sleep , Sleeping Beauty . " |
| 22 | ‘ That is my fault , keeping you from your food . ’ |
| 23 | Has any is there way in which you from your observation there , you the erm there 's been a in in the relationship between the men and the and the women involved involved as a consequence of er this kind of activity ? |
| 24 | Bitterness is n't part of my philosophy ; I 've always said if you let bitterness overwhelm you , you let it distract you from your path , I 've got no time for it ; it cramps your style . |
| 25 | ‘ We heard you from your bedroom window , when we called round last night . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm keeping you from your beauty sleep . |
| 27 | It was extremely difficult to know what to do with a giant who loped along at your side and who could reach out and pluck you from your horse 's back with one hand . |
| 28 | You have too much good sense not to discover that I , in spite of my heart and all the pride of it , can not but love you and have put on a behaviour to you that was much against my heart , in hopes to frighten you from your reservedness . |
| 29 | I 've kept you from your dinner long enough . ’ |
| 30 | She 's trying to protect you from your destiny , which is to be a half-caste in England . |