Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] they from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 3 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 4 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 5 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 6 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 7 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |
| 8 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 9 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 10 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 11 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 12 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 13 | In his characteristic phrase , " I am their leader , I must follow them " — but he determined to follow them from the front . |
| 14 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 15 | Also , by failing to protect them from the sun , you may cause problems for your kids later . |
| 16 | Or where do I — can I write down an address on a piece of paper and I will try to mail them from the hotel . |
| 17 | Their vestigial hands grope around them as their blind , closed-eyed faces press forwards against a thin film of ectoplasm which seems to shield them from the outside . |
| 18 | The supposedly technical and neutral nature of the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy which they employ appears to absolve them from the charge that they are making ideological claims about cultural difference . |
| 19 | Nothing , other than ownership and the secret garden , appears to distinguish them from the other tenants around them . |
| 20 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 21 | The whore went to take them from the child . |
| 22 | Having planned in advance that you intend to press a bouquet or some special flowers , you must also decide how you intend to transport them from the event to your home . |
| 23 | The Orcs were also provided with food and reinforcements by Forest Goblins who flocked to join them from the Great Forest . |
| 24 | Then I mention that the only people who really use notebooks to the full , who worry about weight and battery life , are journalists because most other notebook users tend to take them from the car to an office or home , often using the mains and probably doing little more than running a spreadsheet . |
| 25 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 26 | the O Little Town were you planning to arrange them from the |
| 27 | The generally accepted reason was that the French coffers were nearly empty and he wanted to replenish them from the vast treasures of the Knights Templars . |
| 28 | You have to count them from the first , this is one , one , two , three , four |