Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 2 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 3 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 4 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 6 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 7 | He wanted to withdraw our organization 's financial support for the conference , and tried to discourage me from remaining involved . |
| 8 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 9 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 10 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 11 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 12 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 13 | She tried to clear them from her mind , but was broody over breakfast . |
| 14 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 15 | Little Jitka tried to grab it from Paddy 's hand . |
| 16 | She shot her arm out and tried to grab it from him , but his fingers closed firmly around her wrist and easily held her at bay . |
| 17 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 18 | God sent two angels to check out the city and the men of Sodom tried to kidnap them from their host , Lot , in order to have homosexual relations with them . |
| 19 | We had to move from Renishaw Road to a smaller house in Thorne Road at the other end of Nottingham , a move dictated by financial considerations , but which in a way pleased Mother as it helped to distance her from her old set of friends . |
| 20 | Daemons tried to turn him from his path . |
| 21 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 22 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 23 | Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially . |
| 24 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
| 25 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 26 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Exactly what I expected — what I tried to shield you from , ’ he said with very grim satisfaction . |
| 28 | She found it behind the chair and picked it up , but Maggie tried to take it from her . |
| 29 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
| 30 | Rachel 's eyes lit up as she tried to take it from him . |