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

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1 And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator .
2 It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved .
3 Even if you do n't want to go back to your ex-wife , counselling may help you to free yourself from the past .
4 . Thought better by Jewry itself to withdraw him from the public gaze .
5 When he opened the scoring , it came as no surprise , for it had looked as if he 'd be the one to do it from the start .
6 Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ?
7 Then they formed up around him to escort him from the arena .
8 He was tempted to tell her to hire someone from the gutter press if she wanted more earthy writing , or some bloody feminist if she wanted a sensitive novel .
9 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 .
10 Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions .
11 Then he closed the eyes of the boy with the broken neck , and placed a coat over him to keep him from the eyes of the students he would never get to know .
12 The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them .
13 But she would have preferred him to admire her from the beginning , without the encouragement of her valentine .
14 In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers .
15 Helen poured coffee but left them to take it from the tray .
16 Many Heads have expressed to me their appreciation of what the lu Labour Group has done for them to rescue them from the plight that the Tories imposed on them .
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