Example sentences of "[verb] us from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
| 2 | There was nothing really special about that distinguishes us , distinguished us from the pack . |
| 3 | The cabbie , who drove us from the airport to our hotel , had spent some time in Oxford and London . |
| 4 | to prize us from the magma limb |
| 5 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 6 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 7 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 8 | In my very early childhood , it was in Mr Knight 's pony and cart ; but then Mr Lewarne had a motor car , and from then on he fetched us from the station . |
| 9 | They protect the organs of the body and insulate us from the cold . |
| 10 | Save us from the sea , oh God ! ’ |
| 11 | Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh , that he may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies . ’ |
| 12 | But that realisation should not be a disappointment : rather it liberates us from the job of creating masterpieces , and gives us a much more achievable task . |
| 13 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 14 | It 's a new secret organization of nationalists and patriots working to free us from the French ! " |
| 15 | The congregation — perhaps 400 people , from outrageous punks to young women with babies — prayed with him ‘ to free us from the temptation of power , the temptation of violence — remove us from the barriers of ideology . ’ |
| 16 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 17 | ‘ How pleasant , then , for you to relax on this assignment , ’ Roman countered smoothly , a steely note beneath the surface , ‘ knowing that family friendship absolves us from the need for stiff formality . ’ |
| 18 | This is not a call to glorify suffering for its own sake , but to realize that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ , whatever it may be . |
| 19 | When we turn to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving , God will fill us with the peace which passes all understanding , nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God which is expressed in Jesus Christ his son , our Lord . |
| 20 | She agreed with Gilbert that the souls of the dead are in the hand of God and , as for herself , she was persuaded that there is nothing in this world or out of it which can separate us from the love of God . |
| 21 | He can defend us , can separate us from the past , from the concentration camps and lost wars . |
| 22 | Soldiers from the base struck at our hands with metal rods while Thames Valley police twisted and karate-chopped fingers and wrists , pulled us from the fence by our necks and flung us into ditches and trees . |
| 23 | ‘ What distinguishes us from the rest of the industry is that we do research to prove the claims we make , ’ he says . |
| 24 | He said I am sure I am sure that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord . |
| 25 | ‘ Neither death nor life nor angels , nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come , nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God … ’ |
| 26 | No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road . |
| 27 | We go into a state of shock to protect us from the knowledge . |
| 28 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 29 | Codemasters ' director David Darling said : ‘ The fact that Sega has chosen to wait to sue until just before our commercial launch shows this is a blatant attempt to keep us from the market they control . ’ |
| 30 | A charming Chinese member of staff greeted us and took us from the airport to Robert Black College which was to be our home for four months . |