Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] me from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 2 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 4 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 5 | ‘ He came to me from a very reliable source . ’ |
| 6 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 7 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 8 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 9 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 10 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 11 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 12 | If you look upon me from an aerial view , I 'm open . |
| 13 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 14 | What I 'd really like , of course , is not to have to bother with lugging kilo bags of sugar and tins of weedkiller back from the town to stuff into electrical-conduit piping which Jamie the dwarf gets for me from the building contractor 's where he works in Porteneil . |
| 15 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 16 | ‘ They were on the look-out for a female DJ so everyone was very up for me from the word go . |
| 17 | He knows full well that we are not related , though he once waved to me from a passing train . |
| 18 | The voice of your brother 's blood is crying to me from the ground . |
| 19 | ‘ He called to me from a winter place . |
| 20 | He called to me from the place . |
| 21 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 22 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 23 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 24 | As a works convenor , I work along twenty shop stewards , and I can tell this Congress that the message that they 've given to me from the people from the people that have elected them , is that they 're sick and tired of the perpetual bleating of the T U C about how they have to abide by the laws , when the only laws that are there are the laws that are bringing this movement down . |
| 25 | After we had talked , Philip read to me from an unpublished memoir which he had entitled ‘ The Two Burtons ’ . |
| 26 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 27 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 28 | I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back . |
| 29 | Er so I , it was really instilled in me from a very early age . |
| 30 | Haas , talking to me from the team HQ in Illinois , was anxious to underline that neither he or Newman had unfairly , unethically , rocked the Williams boat . |