Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes sir , I I would n't seek to dissuade you from that sir . |
| 2 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 3 | To what extent do they appear to preclude you from making use of the skills and knowledge that you have acquired and competing with the people for whom you used to work . |
| 4 | The really depressing thing about the Middle East is not that outsiders have treated it badly , which is the tedious Arab refrain , but that there is so little outsiders can do to save it from its future troubles . |
| 5 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 6 | And he did want to hear it from her mouth . |
| 7 | I had often wondered this myself , but I did n't want to hear it from her . |
| 8 | I then told him that I was collecting her works and would like to buy them from him . |
| 9 | I 'd like to buy it from him someday . ’ |
| 10 | ( The tidy-minded may like to date it from Petrucci 's publication of Bernardo Pisano 's Musica … sopra le canzone del petrarcha which actually occurred in 1520 . ) |
| 11 | The Elves hid themselves in caves , woods and mountainsides and prayed to their gods that they would not be found , and that a hero would emerge to deliver them from this evil . |
| 12 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 13 | These are questions that I 'd like to ask you from what you 've told me so far , erm , I 'd like to ask you Mr about erm , from your point of view , from your erm experience with the electrical |
| 14 | erm , why I suppose that 's two completely different questions and I 'd like to ask you from your point of view , from your point of view |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to tell us from the beginning , ’ said Montgomery softly . |
| 16 | Members of the parliament demanded in a 135-34 vote that Mr Yeltsin appear at the Congress tomorrow , when they may vote to remove him from office for declaring emergency rule and calling an April referendum . |
| 17 | That is possible actually , that he would want to keep it from his neighbourhood . |
| 18 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't particularly want to protect him from infection . |
| 20 | Do I try to see it from the laibon 's point of view ? |
| 21 | Swinging round to face him , she demanded furiously , ‘ Did you try to see it from mine ? ’ |
| 22 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 23 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 24 | If I were pedantic I would have to exclude it from my description of the Basque country , because Sauveterre is definitely a Béarnais and not a Basque town ; but it is close to the edge of Basse-Navarre , and worth a visit , so I shall rope it in here . |
| 25 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But before we could lift the bomb out we would have to free it from its clamps and this is where the great difficulty lies . |
| 28 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 29 | Because I 'm sure you wo n't try to cross me from now on . |
| 30 | Could you fix the door from inside or fr or did you have to do it from outside ? |