Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Still not enough to tempt you from the tourist route ? |
2 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
3 | A big hat : with a brim large enough to protect you from the sun and the eyes of the curious , thus allowing you to look enigmatic when you 're merely asleep . |
4 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
5 | It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit . |
6 | It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division . |
7 | The valley takes its name from the Entlen torrent , a tributary of the Little Emme , which races down to join it from the slopes of the Glaubenberg mount which separates this valley from the parallel valley in which lie the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes ( and the road from Brunig Pass . ) |
8 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
9 | How stupid she 'd been not to realise it from the start . |
10 | Each partner will have the right to inspect the firm 's books , but not to remove them from the place where they are agreed to be kept . |
11 | He wrenched the knife back and forth to free it from the planking . |
12 | They 've got enough from the stomach alone to kill him twice over and they 've still to separate it from the liver and muscles . |
13 | As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold . |
14 | Taboos against touching , and against speaking the name of a dead person , are set up to protect them from the hostility of the dead as they see it . |
15 | They were out to get me from the start . |
16 | When a moth flies into range , it works out the exact speed and position of its victim and then flies out to pluck it from the air . |
17 | She ought n't to learn it from the police or the television news . ’ |
18 | It 's a very simple matter and it it , there 's no so even if the jury are about to hear it from the witness . |
19 | It must be the nearest thing you could get to Lord Ismay … it was just the tip how to run it , how to manage it from the Government point of view . |
20 | He did n't pull his weight , but knew how to keep it from the consultants . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |
24 | I thought of taking advantage , and went round to collect her from a dinner party . |
25 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |