Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] " 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 | It may be possible to find such books in your office , or to arrange to borrow them from a public library . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 6 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 9 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 10 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 11 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I am presently endeavouring to protect you from a race that considers all human life to be a dangerous , parasitic infection . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is the outer layer of the tent designed to protect you from the elements , usually wind and rain , but it could also be from heat . |
| 16 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 17 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 18 | ‘ You want to reclaim it from the people that have been misused it . |
| 19 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 20 | Quite possibly he wants to shield us from the fact |
| 21 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
| 26 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 27 | A sensible place to begin this endeavour is with the mainspring of the story 's action , the Ring ( here capitalised to distinguish it from the relatively insignificant stage-prop or ‘ Equalizer ’ of The Hobbit ) . |
| 28 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 29 | Instead it is an elaboration of the task , designed to subtract it from the category of ‘ work ’ and add it to the creative pleasure dimension . |
| 30 | The Department of Transport wants to ban them from the ancient route for sixty days a year . |