Example sentences of "[vb pp] them from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 2 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 3 | Thirty yards separated them from the catamaran . |
| 4 | Darkened windows separated them from the chauffeur . |
| 5 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 6 | They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds . |
| 7 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 8 | Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop . |
| 9 | So I was going to rummage through these slides and we do n't have them , erm so I 'll have to , I 'll hand the , the , the book around in just one minute , erm the poems that I 'm going to read to you , very few of them are actually complete , most of them are sketches erm ideas and images of erm , that I 've got , I 've , I 've got them from the paintings . |
| 10 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 11 | Shallow wells generally contain much water that has reached them from the surface , and this may bring varying amounts of contamination . |
| 12 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 13 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 14 | ‘ I bought them from Mr and Mrs Bumble , who had stolen them from the nurse , who had stolen them from Agnes , the dead girl . |
| 15 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |
| 16 | While the exhibition certainly illustrated ways in which fashion and furniture designers could create new products which were exciting , the tastes they displayed and , in the case of many items , the cost of the production would have removed them from the custom and purses of many older people . |
| 17 | They instantly felt less grown up , whereas Minton had encouraged them from the start to tackle imaginative work by giving them articles from Lilliput with the illustration blocked out and the instruction that they were to do their own . |
| 18 | The first revolution had liberated them from the oppression of the Tsarist regime and reinforced their perennial dream of autonomy … |
| 19 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 20 | His voice was a mere whisper , but such was the effect of his words on the woman that he might have shouted them from the rooftops . |