Example sentences of "[vb pp] me from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 2 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 3 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 4 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 5 | Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them … |
| 6 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |
| 7 | I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday . |
| 8 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 9 | If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity . |
| 10 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 11 | The other girls went together in a group but I was on my own , and I suppose someone could have followed me from the dance … |
| 12 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 13 | Mr Lawler has sent me from The Haven to collect the thirty brace of grouse he ordered , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |