Example sentences of "[verb] they from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 2 | Deputations of pit brow lasses visited Parliament in the 1880s and in 1911 during campaigns by the miners and some coal owners to exclude them from the collieries . |
| 3 | And then they started recruiting or or or promoting them from the ranks you know . |
| 4 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 5 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 6 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 7 | Most often , it takes the form of a white colt who will nip the heels of would-be thieves , and chase them from the trees . |
| 8 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 9 | The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present . |
| 10 | You should make these regular and wide , however , to differentiate them from the steps , otherwise they could become dangerous to anyone rushing up them who mistakes a landing for a step . |
| 11 | So I was going to rummage through these slides and we do n't have them , erm so I 'll have to , I 'll hand the , the , the book around in just one minute , erm the poems that I 'm going to read to you , very few of them are actually complete , most of them are sketches erm ideas and images of erm , that I 've got , I 've , I 've got them from the paintings . |
| 12 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 13 | Allan argues that these class differences are due to very different ways of organizing friendship ( p. 49 ) : ‘ Briefly , whereas the working-class respondents tended to restrict interaction with their friends ( and with their other sociable companions ) to particular social contexts , the middle class respondents developed their friendships by explicitly removing them from the constraints imposed by specific settings . ’ |
| 14 | So tightly can Loricariids sucker themselves with their flattened mouths that their mouths would actually be torn by attempts at removing them from the logs . |
| 15 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 16 | The whipmakers plaited their whips through the railings and hung them from the trees . |
| 17 | Your mother was a witch 's daughter , born in your world but not in your time — long before that , in a time when they feared witches and hung them from the gallows tree . |
| 18 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 19 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes . |
| 23 | The steel bars of the cage were enclosed by tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the elements , except for one side , which was open with just a simple lift bar to move before exit . |
| 24 | It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain . |
| 25 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 26 | Both their lorries were green , and so were their lead reins , anti-sweat sheets , buckets and bandages , and there were green braids on their splendid horses ' tails , which were left down until the last moment to protect them from the flies . |
| 27 | The owner has planted trees all around the ponds which will conceal them from the roads so to me that ca n't be a problem . |
| 28 | The owner has planted trees all around the ponds which will conceal them from the roads so to me that ca n't be a problem . |
| 29 | None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above . |
| 30 | As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums . |