Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] they from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 2 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 7 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 8 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 9 | Overcast ( oversewing ) is used to neaten raw edges to prevent them from fraying ( fig. 16 ) . |
| 10 | One look at the gatehouse told us that way would be suicide , so we launched a full-scale attack to distract them from you and get Guy over the wall . |
| 11 | The French suffered enormous casualties , including Ring John of Bohemia , the Duke of Lorraine and the Counts of Blois and Flanders , and Froissart suggests that only Edward 's decision not to pursue the remnants of the French forces saved them from even more serious losses . |
| 12 | They and others who employ what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy appear , then , to believe that this model insulates them from the arguments I have been discussing . |
| 13 | Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered . |
| 14 | The act of the king touching them in this way protects them from the otherwise dangerous consequences of being in contact with the power of the king . |
| 15 | Alice glanced at her own hands , small , neat , the nails immaculately well maintained , and covered with a transparent varnish to protect them from the world . |
| 16 | All sailors throughout the year need light , waterproof anoraks to protect them from the chilling effect of light spray in strong winds . |
| 17 | ‘ Remember when you were delivering boots for me and that boy took them from you , how did you feel then , Will ? ’ |
| 18 | It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis . |
| 19 | ‘ The self-consciousness allows [ the performer ] the pleasure of exhibitionism [ while their ] blatant self-display releases them from guilt and invites a similarly shameless gaze from the spectator , whose participation is implicit throughout , ’ James writes . |
| 20 | In so far as the anchoress is seeking Christ lost in the soul , she is like the disciples in the boat on the sea of Galilee lost in the storm ( Matthew 13:44 ) who woke the sleeping Jesus to save them from destruction : But underlying the cry of the anchoress is the constant calling of God which alone enables her cry : " oure lord and all whilk wilen herken to hym ( 50.323a. – 122 ) . |
| 21 | Just as the concentration on individual managers isolates them from their proper context and makes them almost personally responsible for local policy variations , so the concentration on the processes of local politics isolated these from other sets of socio-economic processes . |
| 22 | They shared a deep marble bath , with warm water showering them from above , and as the oil was washed from their bodies so he fucked her again . |
| 23 | The minister was not an opera-lover himself , but many of the congregation were , and such blasphemies distracted them from their devotions into vying with each other to identify the operatic intrusions . |
| 24 | Recently , and at vast expense , Loch Ken has been revitalised and restocked , because it had become fishless ; and there is evidence that many other lochs , surrounded by conifer plantations , will need similar treatment to save them from ruin in the foreseeable future . |
| 25 | For instance , people have long known that squeezing lemon juice on sliced fruits prevents them from turning brown , but until recently it was not known why lemon juice has this effect . |
| 26 | This instinctive anti-Americanism was revealed most clearly during the Gulf War , in which the pretence that the Basic Law prevented them from sending troops was a mere figleaf for their initial failure to offer any political support to the American-led campaign ( Genscher remained silent for a week after the fighting began , although he and Kohl tried to make amends later ) and for their inexcusable prevarication about supporting Turkey in the event of an attack by Iraq . |
| 27 | Cattle wore collars of rowan wood to protect them from spells and curses . |
| 28 | He left them in his wake and when a little distance separated them from him , he heard one call out to him . |
| 29 | Polgar rations their appearances in a natural wish to protect them from the media . |
| 30 | In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light . |