Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] us from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Codemasters ' director David Darling said : ‘ The fact that Sega has chosen to wait to sue until just before our commercial launch shows this is a blatant attempt to keep us from the market they control . ’ |
| 2 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 3 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 4 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 5 | Two pretexts were given for the failure to release us from the airport : that one of the mares wore a head-collar with an obviously masculine name embossed , and that one of the fillies ’ passports was stamped GONE TO STUD . |
| 6 | No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road . |
| 7 | We go into a state of shock to protect us from the knowledge . |
| 8 | The Chair of the Moldovan parliament , Aleksandru Moshanu , reiterated Snegur 's views , and urged that Moldova should identify itself with Romania , dropping the term " Moldovan people " which was " dogma imposed by the [ Soviet ] colonizers to separate us from the Romanians " . |
| 9 | Nothing was said , but we all knew he had gone against his own convictions to save us from the pain of losing his company and his vital support . |
| 10 | ‘ We , the country people of Tayside in Perth , living between Fortingall in the west , Foss on Tummel in the north , and Logierait in the east , do solemnly petition your Worship to exempt us from the Militia Act passed in July this year , 1797 , for it would submit us to hardship and bondage , which we believe to be no duty of ours . ’ |