Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you ca n't remember it , do n't copy it : look at it again , and try again to write it from memory . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 16 | Burning fossil fuel in power stations to split it from water is daft , though water or wind power might be long-term alternatives . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | to see you from time to time |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The French should be reminded what we lost to free them from oppression . |
| 21 | The tribunal had to discharge him from hospital . |
| 22 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 23 | He claimed that his Socialist opponents had used corruption allegations to hound him from office , and that fellow right-wing politicians in Paris had abandoned him ( many of Médecin 's close political friends had been alienated by his decision in 1989 to leave the Gaullist Rally for the Republic and join the far right National Centre of Independents and Peasants ) . |
| 24 | The eye is the most tell-tale detail of any animal shape and it is a great advantage to be able to obscure it from view . |
| 25 | There are free buses to ferry you from hotel to cable-car stations and the town has a warm , friendly atmosphere . |
| 26 | ‘ Water will find its level , ’ he said softly of his divided opponents ' noisy threats , never carried out , to vote him from office . |
| 27 | Even companies like M&S have to do it from time : warn customers that something they 've bought could be dangerous and needs to be returned , either for repairing or a cash refund . |
| 28 | She does n't have to fund it from income . |
| 29 | They 've got less fat to insulate them from cold . |
| 30 | Seniority provides committee chairmen with an independent power base and helps to insulate them from control by party leaders and presidents . |