Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The answer is that this third human state has a special feature that distinguishes it from the other two ( the inner and the outer states ) in that it is a zone for cultural experience or creative playing . |
| 32 | It is the overdetermined character of the materialist dialectic that distinguishes it from the Hegelian dialectic . |
| 33 | Johnny Rotten sings flat , the song is laughably naive , and the overall feeling is of a third-rate Who imitation , but even so there 's a certain neurotic aggression that distinguishes it from the rest of this week 's insipid bunch . ’ |
| 34 | Denying the vote to children is not based on some false assumption about 10-year-olds ' political knowledge , nor to deny that they have interests , nor to protect them from the harm their votes might do . |
| 35 | Because it is open to the sea , the lake becomes salty now and again , but the salt is flushed out by the rivers that feed it from the African mainland . |
| 36 | They ate and drank , sitting tucked into long grass that screened them from the river ; they could hear the flow of it , and the occasional plop of a fish . |
| 37 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 38 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |
| 39 | However , once again I strongly suggest that you grow a collection of wild flowers in your own garden rather than pick them from the countryside and assist in depleting the stocks ! |
| 40 | Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole . |
| 41 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 42 | Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind . |
| 43 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 44 | But it is thought , however , that these few people do n't have the antibodies that protect them from the toxin if it is produced . ’ |
| 45 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |
| 46 | I 'm afraid there 's none of that — transport , I mean — except Archie McLaren 's Land-Rover , the one that carries you from the harbour . |
| 47 | In the latter case there is the additional difficulty when children hear words pronounced in a way that disconnects them from the written form . |
| 48 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 49 | Next morning , she smiled at him over breakfast , drinking him in , for she must toil alone all day and bring him from the clay . |
| 50 | The ownership of productive property defines this class and separates it from the rest of society . |
| 51 | There are eight behaviours that are typical of successful negotiators and distinguish them from the less successful . |
| 52 | I laughed at him but , when he heard footsteps in the corridor , he wrenched it off my neck himself and flung it from the window . |
| 53 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 54 | At the market he started off down one of the narrow , clothes-thick alleyways , but we pulled him back and shielded him from the warren of stalls . |
| 55 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 56 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 57 | The ruler of Sharjah , Shaikh bin Sultan Mohammed al-Qassimi , on Feb. 4 , 1990 , removed from his brother , Shaikh Abdel-Aziz bin Mohammed al-Qassimi , the title of Crown Prince and dismissed him from the deputy chairmanship of the Sharjah Executive Council . |
| 58 | Today I took on the world No 1 , and that 's not easy , and beat him from the back of the court . |
| 59 | The Supreme Council of the armed forces on Jan. 8 sentenced Mohamed Ali Seineldin , Luis Baraldini , Oscar Ricardo Vega and four other officers to indefinite imprisonment and discharged them from the army as the ringleaders of a military rebellion on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 60 | With so many fast bowlers now suffering serious injury at some stage in their careers , coaches might be able to make an early identification of potential problems and eradicate them from the action . |