Example sentences of "[prep] us from the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
2 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |
3 | However , a commitment to Free Will somehow understood , or the force of some image of Free Will , is likely to keep many of us from the further conclusion that the circumstance was exactly a necessitating circumstance . |
4 | Many of us from the so-called developed countries are engaged in advising developing countries on their rural and other development problems . |
5 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
6 | It is the most potent poison known to us from the entire animal world . |
7 | Together you can return to us from the frozen forbidden place . |
8 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
9 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
10 | But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis . |