Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I 'm going to do it from a black point of view . ’ |
| 32 | Is she the right person to do it from a Catholic school ? |
| 33 | Widgery acquiesced , aiming to do it from a position in keeping with the times , and from his revolutionary socialist stance . |
| 34 | But she had wanted to give it from a position of power , of strength . |
| 35 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 36 | I keep reminding myself that this was a film , a work of art , a dramatic illusion , but it 's not easy to detach yourself from a film , as you can from a play . ’ |
| 37 | In Britain 's current enterprise culture , there 's money available to fund anything from a cow chiropodist to a breeder of edible snails , though there 's no guarantee that your venture will work . |
| 38 | You may be called upon to devise anything from a competition to a collection of recipes ( taking expert advice if you are wise ) . |
| 39 | In Jennings , above , the accused had a sheathknife to protect himself from a person with whom he had been quarrelling . |
| 40 | Alternatively , use a rug or foam mat to protect you from a hard floor . |
| 41 | ‘ I am presently endeavouring to protect you from a race that considers all human life to be a dangerous , parasitic infection . |
| 42 | By the end of 1978 renewed demonstrations in Isfahan and Tehran ( and elsewhere ) had demoralized both the Shah 's government and the Americans , who were busy trying to salvage something from a situation that was clearly going badly wrong . |
| 43 | Michael Atherton ( 37 ) , and especially Chris Lewis ( 49 ) , also played their part in stands of 58 and 93 respectively with Hick as England tried to salvage something from a Test series they have already lost 2-0 . |
| 44 | Actress Helena Bonham Carter is the latest victim of obsession , she is asking a court to protect her from a fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 45 | The village hall is run by an energetic committee who have raised sufficient money over the past few years to convert it from a wooden building to a brick one , and to refurbish the interior . |
| 46 | AT FIRST listen there was little on The Black Crowes ' first LP ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ to separate it from a hundred other rock'n'roll records which were desperately trying to get their sound across after the Guns N'Roses media boom of the late '80s . |
| 47 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 48 | It has a very efficient and accurate VAT return facility , and includes functions for everything you need to run anything from a small to multi-national company . |
| 49 | Thus the effect of the nineteenth-century sales was to turn them from a class of privileged municipal tenants into outright owners of the surplus land of the community . |
| 50 | Her mother used to hang them from a hook in the kitchen ceiling in order to be able to work round them . |
| 51 | Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stone blob into a 14-stone hunk . |
| 52 | As Bill has sharpened his image to match his growing political fortunes , so Hillary cast aside her intellectual reserve to transform herself from a dowdy schoolma'am type in heavy glasses to a glamorous , designer-dressed head-turner who would grace any State function . |
| 53 | By now Smallfry was using her other voice , the one that screeched shrilly and somehow managed to transform her from a beautiful movie-star into something savage and frightening . |
| 54 | Her children had to love her from a distance — |
| 55 | to watch her from a lakeside villa |
| 56 | ONE of Prince Charles 's closest friends is to undergo surgery to save her from a crippling disease . |
| 57 | I felt the miserable decline of my happiness as I imagined the girl 's innocence and the futility of her mother 's efforts to save her from a cruel death . |
| 58 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 59 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 60 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |