Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 32 | I would simply suggest that we should not allow either sentimentality or a genuine concern for retaining decentralized powers in general to distract us from the major , and separate , task of attempting to determine a common policy for all education at all stages in the future . |
| 33 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 34 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 35 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 36 | ‘ It 'll probably be easy to eliminate them from the enquiry ; we are n't going to frame anybody or hassle anybody or pull anything heavy . ’ |
| 37 | A spokesman said detectives hoped that if the suspects were not the terrorists they — or someone who recognised them — would come forward to eliminate them from the inquiry . |
| 38 | Resting gratefully on his pitchfork as they waited for a slow-moving loaded wagon to reach them from the far end of the field , Seb said , ‘ There 'll be another hundred acres to work by the spring . |
| 39 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 40 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 41 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 42 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 43 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 44 | situation I 'd suspect will be addressed within that other part , I did mention in my presentation that there are a number of inter-related problems here , I can trace about four or five , all of which have a chain reaction one upon the other , unfortunately Brandon is up front so we 've got to tackle it from the other direction . |
| 45 | Prior to completion of the missives a meeting took place at the farm when an offer was made to purchase it from the defender at a price of £65,000 . |
| 46 | Well that was what they call it , tortoise stove , used to be a big stove and that ai n't got no grate in they had er they used to feed it from the top , |
| 47 | But it is not right for a member of the teaching staff to so present that disciplinary framework that the student is unable to view it from the outside or is discouraged from officering an alternative perspective from another discipline . |
| 48 | It 's an antibiotic stuff to clean it from the inside . |
| 49 | there is an opportunity of being able to screen it from the Farnsfield direction . |
| 50 | ‘ It was a big shock , ’ admitted Dorothy who went to Buckingham Palace with her husband , Ron , to receive it from the Queen . |
| 51 | But this was because it was one-sided , they used to lock it from the outside and there was a catch on the inside as they could put in . |
| 52 | Oh , our front passenger seat wo n't lock either , you 've got to lock it from the inside , ta |
| 53 | To seek to eliminate it from the environment is impossible ; a fact acknowledged by the Minister for Agriculture and his advisers . |
| 54 | to prize us from the magma limb |
| 55 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 56 | One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front . |
| 57 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 59 | You used to buy them from the chemist . |
| 60 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |