Example sentences of "[to-vb] they from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 2 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 3 | Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers . |
| 4 | Until 1925 it had been possible for Communists to be represented in all sections of the Labour Party but at the liverpool Conference it was decided to exclude them from membership . |
| 5 | Lachlan was still snarling and kicking when they uncovered him , and they nearly broke his fingers trying to unfasten them from Farquhar 's neck . |
| 6 | Mike Lynch , of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , said whale watchers were posing a risk to the animals — and placing themselves in danger — by trying to track them from boats . |
| 7 | I used to , I used to buy them from Smithfield , the show , cattle show and years ago , when we had them down home , we used to show them Saturday nights outside the front of the shop . |
| 8 | I 've just recently changed to Next but I used to buy them from Oxfam when I used to live here . |
| 9 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 10 | The French should be reminded what we lost to free them from oppression . |
| 11 | They 've got less fat to insulate them from cold . |
| 12 | Seniority provides committee chairmen with an independent power base and helps to insulate them from control by party leaders and presidents . |
| 13 | These charges and interest rates are variable and the Bank reserves the right to amend them from time to time . |
| 14 | In a tract written shortly before the 1715 General Election , Atterbury maintained that " the People " had been " fleec 'd so often " by the heavy taxes imposed by the Whigs to fight their wars , that " they have scarce enough to keep them from Perishing " . |
| 15 | This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard . |
| 16 | If war in Europe seems likely , trucks carrying four missiles each will emerge from their bunkers and disperse around southern Britain to protect them from attack . |
| 17 | It is reasonably hardwearing but it lacks the springiness and suppleness of wool ; consequently , silk rugs tend to retain any creases or scuffing in the pile , and far greater care is needed to protect them from damage . |
| 18 | It is doubtful how many of those who bestow gifts of coral on infants appreciate that their forebears did so to protect them from bewitchment . |
| 19 | Each collection features ten patterns for all the family in a clear lay-flat format with transparent plastic covers to protect them from machine oil and coffee stains . |
| 20 | They are one of the first candidates for food irradiation , which will replace the chemicals that are used to protect them from pests during storage . |
| 21 | Water voles have fairly specialized habitat needs : rivers or streams with steep banks and thick vegetation to protect them from birds of prey . |
| 22 | The issue is that , despite the information available , CSM took no action to protect patients from practolol at least from January to October 1975 ; and again took no action to protect them from benoxaprofen from October 1981 to August 1982 . |
| 23 | Catholics and protestants became more and more segregated by school , as the Roman catholic bishops sought to bind in their flocks from outside influences , on the one hand to protect them from proselytism , and on the other to use the schools as a vehicle for the maintenance and development of faith . |
| 24 | The wildest , emptiest part of the country — where cauldrons still hang over kitchen fires and shepherds ' dogs wear studded collars to protect them from wolves — is the high , craggy Beira Alta area , where Sabugueiro and Manteigas make great bases for walking . |
| 25 | WHILE watching the Olympic boxing , I realised what a sensible idea it is for the amateur fighters to wear headguards to protect them from brain injuries . |
| 26 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be wrong to keep uneconomic pits open by trying to protect them from competition from imported coal ? |
| 27 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 28 | No , not a dog , a bodyguard stationed there to protect them from evil . |
| 29 | Wrap your plants in newspaper to protect them from draughts and to stop leaves bruising . |
| 30 | Cattle wore collars of rowan wood to protect them from spells and curses . |