Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] you from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Exactly what I expected — what I tried to shield you from , ’ he said with very grim satisfaction . |
| 3 | He did n't want to be invited to the party but it would have been nice to have friends like that who came to meet you from Vienna and were delighted to see you . |
| 4 | More than that , she nearly died to save you from the results of your own jealousy and spite . |
| 5 | All I knew , in the heat of that moment , was that I had to protect you from me , had to take heed of that barely grasped truth that I could n't perhaps take your virginity and then just walk away . ’ |
| 6 | I wanted to save you from being damned for all eternity . ’ |
| 7 | Six six contracts all the same print so that if ever we shifted you or wanted you wanted to shift you from estate into to golf or to schools we do n't have to retrain you at all . |
| 8 | This explanation is then offered to others with the intention of getting them to agree that circumstances conspired to prevent you from performing with the excellence and flair that you would , in the normal course of events , have displayed . |