Example sentences of "[to-vb] them from the " in BNC.

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2 We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century .
3 This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’
4 This recommendation was not accepted , however , and the authorities still have to balance the need to provide access to the parks with the need to preserve them from the increased pressure that results .
5 ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’
6 These volumes are aimed to provide serious students with the rudiments of the craft , and yet to launch them from the craft into inspired practice .
7 The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ .
8 Deputations of pit brow lasses visited Parliament in the 1880s and in 1911 during campaigns by the miners and some coal owners to exclude them from the collieries .
9 ‘ 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) .
13 You used to buy them from the chemist .
14 The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers .
15 The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present .
16 First comes the choral nursery rhyme , linked typographically with the italicized passages placed against the right-hand margin to differentiate them from the rest of the text .
17 You should make these regular and wide , however , to differentiate them from the steps , otherwise they could become dangerous to anyone rushing up them who mistakes a landing for a step .
18 It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis .
19 One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly .
20 You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four
21 ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain .
22 For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester .
23 Polgar rations their appearances in a natural wish to protect them from the media .
24 It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain .
25 He had smoked one cigarette after the other , holding them cupped in his palm to protect them from the rain .
26 The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes .
27 Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods .
28 As has already been mentioned , young children are particularly at risk , and they are dependent on adults to protect them from the potential dangers in their home environment .
29 The steel bars of the cage were enclosed by tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the elements , except for one side , which was open with just a simple lift bar to move before exit .
30 Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ?
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