Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 2 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 3 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 4 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 5 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 7 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 8 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 9 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 10 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 11 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 12 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 13 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 14 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 15 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 16 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 17 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 18 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 19 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 20 | He has freed you from the burden of the rules of Holy Law . ’ |
| 21 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 22 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 23 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 24 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 25 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 26 | TOURING America with your home at your back is a popular option for familes and travellers on a budget who want to free themselves from the hassle of searching for somewhere to get their heads down each night . |
| 27 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 28 | Shallow wells generally contain much water that has reached them from the surface , and this may bring varying amounts of contamination . |
| 29 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 30 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |