Example sentences of "[verb] her from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 2 | A thick hedge shielded her from the field which swept down towards the foot of the embankment . |
| 3 | The rocks she sat behind shielded her from the lodge and the staff-cabins . |
| 4 | The buoy shielded her from the view of the guards , and she used that advantage to get her breath back . |
| 5 | He just walked into her room , closed the door and came across to her , and Maggie stared at him wildly as he took her arm , drew her from the balcony and shut the french window , |
| 6 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 7 | That kind of insight can free her from the constraints of the inner voice which effectively commands her , ‘ Turn right here . |
| 8 | As though she had seen something which disturbed her from the window of the apartment . |
| 9 | Dom João offered her his hand and helped her from the litter . |
| 10 | Damian helped her from the Mercedes . |
| 11 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 12 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 13 | With his usual lightning-swift reactions he took advantage of the moment to pull her from the bed , and as she stumbled against him , his arms tightened about her involuntarily . |
| 14 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 15 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 16 | She was running wildly when the two college students saw her and recognised her from the party as Greg 's girlfriend . |
| 17 | Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum . |
| 18 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 19 | The marquis lifted her from the saddle , feeling the warmth of her body against his own , wishing he could go on holding her for ever . |
| 20 | Whatever vanishing act had saved her from the goon with the gun , it had left her armed . |
| 21 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 22 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 23 | Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark . |
| 24 | I 'll charm her from the tree . |
| 25 | She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items . |
| 26 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 27 | And for herself , Robert thought , remembering her disappointed distance when he extracted her from the culvert . |
| 28 | I did n't really like her from the start , never mind feeling any love for her . |
| 29 | There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild . |
| 30 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |