Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] 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 | ‘ Now that I 've had the frocks made , I think I will definitely do the pantomime — even if they have to suspend me from pegs , ’ she declared . |
| 3 | I want you to drive me from King 's Cross down to the cottage , right ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He did n't want to be invited to the party but it would have been nice to have friends like that who came to meet you from Vienna and were delighted to see you . |
| 8 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 9 | Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon . |
| 10 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 11 | But the man whose failure to think is morally culpable , is distinguishable from such blameless defendants and it may be that the courts will not wish to exclude him from liability . |
| 12 | If you ca n't remember it , do n't copy it : look at it again , and try again to write it from memory . |
| 13 | We have not yet reached the point at which mere characterisation of a claim as a claim in public law is sufficient to exclude it from consideration by the ordinary courts : to permit this would be to create a dual system of law with the rigidity and procedural hardship for plaintiffs which it was the purpose of the recent reforms to remove : ’ Davy v. Spelthorne Borough Council [ 1984 ] A.C. 262 , 276 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 14 | To exclude it from ITV , its competitor for advertising revenue , might weaken it further . |
| 15 | Cover-up — a card is placed in the tray , the child studies the word beneath it then covers it and tries to spell it from memory , using the cubes . |
| 16 | The office was empty when Jay got in , and she slid her dream onto her desk with a work folder to hide it from Francis 's camp curiosity . |
| 17 | At Stanmer , the earlier Pelhams created a well-balanced ‘ Palladian ’ house in the 1720s ; in order to preserve a sense of proper grandeur , the village was moved further north in the downland valley to hide it from view . |
| 18 | Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth . |
| 19 | Mayer is a Yale-trained lawyer , his background is equally in racing and business , he knows the value of money and how to extract it from sponsors and also was among the first to appreciate , in the changing nature of the sport that the big bucks and the big battalions give any team a better chance of achieving championship results . |
| 20 | We left the trees and walked now between high stands of phragmites and reedmace , pausing at a reed screen positioned to hide us from sight . |
| 21 | Lachlan was still snarling and kicking when they uncovered him , and they nearly broke his fingers trying to unfasten them from Farquhar 's neck . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Thus if you are Jewish and working class , your Jewishness is used to disqualify you from membership of labour organizations ; but equally if you are Jewish and poor , your poverty is made to signify the essentially parasitic nature of your ‘ race ’ on the host community . |
| 24 | The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while . |
| 25 | You ought to remember him from Becksley , surely |
| 26 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 27 | Burning fossil fuel in power stations to split it from water is daft , though water or wind power might be long-term alternatives . |
| 28 | For the electronically minded , the easiest method is to obtain a 25 Kohm volume control from a radio spares shop , mount this in a metal box to screen it from hum pick-up , and connect it into the audio dub line . |
| 29 | The principal is required to give his clerk specified minimum training ( or to enable him to receive it from others ) . |
| 30 | It was a great honour to receive it from Trevor Sorbie and Anthony Mascolo . |