Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to get rid of the whole web of interlinked concepts , myths , wishes and desires , one has to mine it from within . |
| 2 | I 'm not saying I condone it , ’ he interpreted her look , ‘ but at the moment maybe it 's all she has to protect her from feelings of inadequacy . ’ |
| 3 | At issue is the FBI 's ability to wiretap in future … the FBI is not only asking the industry to dumb down existing software , it wants to prohibit it from developing new technologies that might interfere with the government 's ability to intercept various oral and electronic communications . ’ |
| 4 | Could you please explain to her what these are/mean and let me know if she wants to change them from this : needs to be finalized by lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 5 | Quite possibly he wants to shield us from the fact |
| 6 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 7 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 8 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 9 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 10 | Their vestigial hands grope around them as their blind , closed-eyed faces press forwards against a thin film of ectoplasm which seems to shield them from the outside . |
| 11 | The supposedly technical and neutral nature of the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy which they employ appears to absolve them from the charge that they are making ideological claims about cultural difference . |
| 12 | Nothing , other than ownership and the secret garden , appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them . |
| 13 | Seniority provides committee chairmen with an independent power base and helps to insulate them from control by party leaders and presidents . |
| 14 | This helps to protect them from starvation during the first week or two , when conditions may still be hard . |
| 15 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 16 | I often ring at this time of the night for a chat , it helps to stop me from going spare . |
| 17 | This system helps to prevent you from getting too close for a normal approach . |
| 18 | Anstey is the father of a pink cheeked vision of health and material well-being who tries to distract him from his writing by showing him her doll , a fashionably attired figure which intervenes in the space between them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 21 | She tries to prise them from my invisible grasp . |
| 22 | When I 'm happy I 'm a wonderful person to be with , but if anyone tries to keep me from doing what I want to do then I 'm … ’ |
| 23 | FEARS are growing that street traders will ‘ drag out ’ moves to remove them from Liverpool 's showpiece shopping area for months . |
| 24 | when he tries to rescue her from the fire . |
| 25 | Achievement conscious pupils may conspire with their teachers in this process of limitation too , drawing them back to safer pedagogical ground when exploration threatens to divert them from their examination destination . |
| 26 | When sleep threatens to take him from me yet another time , I remind Crilly of a line from the film Drugstore Cowboy , in which the heroine says , ‘ You never fuck me and I always have to drive ’ . |
| 27 | It takes the form of a stone tent , to which his widow intended to attach camel-bells ; a small crucifix , incongruously superimposed upon it , fails to redeem it from its bizarre and Bedouin appearance . |
| 28 | So an extra place was laid , and Jennifer allowed to sit between Jill and Nathan , with Matthew pulling faces to amuse her from across the table and Tristram in a flame of embarrassment at having her so near and yet so far . |
| 29 | President Brad Burnham says the amount of information FlashPort generates about a programme as it attempts to translate it from one platform to another has presented him with pricing and packaging issues . |