Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt at rest , the dark weight of tension lifted from him by the woman . |
| 2 | He watched her dab her cheeks , then wipe her eyes , his heart torn from him by the tiny shudder she gave . |
| 3 | This bloc 's frontier is separated from ours by no more than 500 kilometres , or just about two stages of the Tour de France ! " |
| 4 | Cassie knew that Johnny was now separated from her by a gulf of fifty years . |
| 5 | Loch of Stenness lies adjacent to Harray , separated from it by a narrow strip of moorland dominated by the Ring of Brodgar . |
| 6 | Apart from indicating past , present , and future reference , each past or future reference is marked to show whether the event in question is immediately connected to the present , is separated from it by a period of time but taking place on the same day , or is separated from the present by at least one night . |
| 7 | He trudged the maze of little streets , sometimes on the edge of the sea , sometimes , and unpredictably , separated from it by a row of cottages . |
| 8 | This family is characterised by the disk covered with plates often carrying spinelets or granules which do not conceal them , except in Ophiopholis where the granules obscure the plates ; radial shields usually conspicuous ; one apical papilla flanked with rounded oral papillae often separated from it by a diastema and not forming a contiguous series with it , except in Histampica ; the second oral tentacle pore opening within the oral slit ; arm spines short , pointed and erect , not appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 9 | On each side of the bath , separated from it by a colonnade , were halls for spectators . |
| 10 | This is bordered by a continental slope which inclines at an angle of around 3–6° towards the ocean basin and which is separated from it by a continental rise ( Fig. 2.5 ) . |
| 11 | Always you are separated from it by an expanse of one thing or another : docks or roads . |
| 12 | The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull . |
| 13 | Set back from the road it faces the south wall of the magnificent St Magnus Cathedral , and is separated from it by the road , and by a peaceful park area and an avenue of trees . |
| 14 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 15 | Clara 's one solace had been the cold , tight dignity of her case , and this had been stolen from her , robbed from her by an elderly woman 's few words of casual humanity . |
| 16 | It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist , and merely adopted from him by the emperor . |
| 17 | The ideological dimensions of this model are evident from the racist implications drawn from it by the Oxford geologist W. J. Sollas in his influential book Ancient Hunters of 1911 . |
| 18 | The unwinding of such assistance ( repayment of loans given by the Bank to the market or resale to the market of bills bought from it by the Bank ) will drain market liquidity and will , of course , be known by the Bank in advance . |
| 19 | A recipe for it or a description of this beguiling dish of peppers , onions , tomatoes and eggs appears in every one of his books , even down to the booklet commissioned from him by the Romary biscuit firm and which sold for sixpence . |
| 20 | As Denton has shown , Winchelsey had used Clericis Laicos tactically to keep the king at bay while evading the full implications of that bull — that the pope alone could give consent ; Edward spent the last years of his reign dexterously reversing this and nullifying the commitments which appeared to have been extracted from him by the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 . |
| 21 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
| 22 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 23 | If he had not actually gone into the room he would not have seen Gina ; she was standing against one of the bookcases hidden from him by the open door . |
| 24 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |
| 25 | Such interests are slowly diffusing to other feminist psychologists , who have previously been distanced from them by the constraints of the mainstream discipline . |
| 26 | A purchaser of land might well be uneasy if he knew that , even if he had no notice of a trust , the land could be recovered from him by a trustee . |
| 27 | Even the heavily fortified town of Berwick-upon-Tweed , on the Scottish bank of the river , was wrested from them by the English over and over again , and finally lost . |
| 28 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 29 | Again , on the face of the statute , I can not see any reason why in this case the constable should do more than tell the driver the reason under section 7(3) why breath specimens can not be taken or used ; tell him that in these circumstances he is required to give a specimen of blood or urine but that it is for the constable to decide which ; warn him that a failure to provide the specimen required may render him liable to prosecution ; and then , if the constable decides to require blood , ask the driver if there are any reasons why a specimen can not or should not be taken from him by a doctor . |
| 30 | His goodwill with those customers belonged to him and can not reasonably be taken from him by a covenant of this kind . |