Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thrusting the heavy wooden doors of the lift open as they reached her floor , she precipitated herself into the small lobby from which the corridor to her room led , recoiling in dismay as a tall figure unwound itself from one of the two easy chairs beside a small table graced with a vase of fresh flowers . |
| 4 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 5 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 6 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ Sarella said dully in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something from the wreckage of her self-esteem . |
| 8 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 9 | Cos he would maybe , you see you 've got ta say now , would that fella take anything from me for er you know helping me if he 's decent and he wo n't then you help him . |
| 10 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 11 | If the failed attempt to oust him from Wadham in 1654 was the work of stricter puritans who suspected him of reducing Christianity to morality , so in the 1660s his ‘ club for comprehension ’ evoked the censure of high churchmen . |
| 12 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 13 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 14 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 15 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 16 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 17 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 18 | Some people allow this fear to block them from forming close relationships of any kind ; while others face the challenge of deep intimacy despite their fears . |
| 19 | In the twentieth century surfing has been appropriated by the advertising industry and invested with enough sexual connotations to sell anything from soap powder to condoms . |
| 20 | No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin . |
| 21 | Her new husband , Andrew Leach , made some attempt to wean her from alcohol . |
| 22 | Among humans , social bonding includes everything from nodding , winking and shaking hands , to having a good cuddle . |
| 23 | Not to thank you , I mean — and Rose — oh , dear … ’ and her face crumpled , but the steely resolution which lay beneath her outward charm prevented her from giving way to the hysterics which she knew would take her over if she allowed herself to show any weakness . |
| 24 | This attitude protects you from negative suggestions and strengthens your defence mechanism in a socially acceptable way . |
| 25 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 26 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 27 | In the cavernous exhibition hall , more than 300 salesmen offered everything from reproduction Gatling guns to a Barrett 82A , a semi-automatic rifle with a range of almost a mile — ‘ as used by three countries in Operation Desert Storm . ’ |
| 28 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 29 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 30 | He said that he and his partner , Frank Anderson , bought the empty property in Marine Park Mansions , Wellington Road , for £750,000 and spent a further £200,000 converting it from flats into a hotel . |