Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] them from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 3 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 4 | As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums . |
| 5 | The barmaid led them from the bar and up some rickety steps . |
| 6 | Graham recognised them from the Art School ; they were talking and laughing . |
| 7 | The invisible cage removed them from the otherworld . |
| 8 | Adam followed them from the security of the trees , watched the senior officer talking as the others listened and followed him . |
| 9 | Philip watched them from the window . |
| 10 | When Swayne stopped speaking small sounds reached them from the street : a woman 's heels tapping on the paving stones , a snatch of conversation from the people opposite … |
| 11 | A taxi took them from the airport to Commander Zadak 's office , some kilometres north of Sydney . |
| 12 | A sun umbrella sheltered them from the wan May sunshine . |
| 13 | Huge golden canopies shielded them from the 100-degree heat . |
| 14 | RUGBY SCHOOL 's ambitious Antipodean tour took them from the birthplace of the game in England to Nelson , where the first game of rugby was played in New Zealand between the Nelson club and Nelson College in 1870 . |
| 15 | The shops on the Garlands ' side of the street backed on the water and only a narrow paved walk separated them from the harbour . |
| 16 | Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered . |
| 17 | Now only another thirty yards of lawn separated them from the side wall of the house . |
| 18 | At that moment Basil called them from the house . |
| 19 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |
| 20 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |
| 21 | Short of cash while just short of Cairo , Palin reached them from the ship . |
| 22 | And finally Rachel swept them from the kitchen and down the stairs , chatting amiably as she went . |