Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.

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1 No , what I am looking at are the first direct signals to reach me from the dark constellation of Serafin .
2 The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave .
3 It has sunscreens to protect you from the sun 's harmful rays , and a unique bio-collagen complex to nourish and moisturise .
4 He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze .
5 As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums .
6 Eyes watched her from the thorn woods .
7 Hundreds of black-headed gulls were also joining in the feast of freshly hatching insects , paddling over the waves to snatch them from the surface , whilst in the Island Bay we came upon three superb black terns , dipping and turning over the water .
8 A treaty was agreed in 1490 , although a concession was made to the Venetians to exempt them from the Staple .
9 I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain .
10 Staff from the general practices collected their vaccines from the central office , while health clinics received theirs from the district 's transport service .
11 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 .
12 We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century .
13 Young 's lifetime passion for the large molluscs led him from the squid to the octopus .
14 Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany .
15 It has been agreed to call these antibodies perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies to differentiate them from the classical cANCA present in Wegener 's granulomatosis .
16 It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) .
17 The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again .
18 Now if you two charming ladies , and Herbert here , can persuade your betters to free you from the chains for an hour or two , we 're as good as on our way ! ’
19 This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living .
20 If this is an improvised one such as a pierced cake tin , without feet to raise it from the plate on which it drains , set it in the top of a basin , mixing bowl , saucepan , wide jar , or any vessel in which it will fit without actually resting on the bottom .
21 The judges extrapolated it from the fact that constables hold office under the Crown and are sworn to keep the peace .
22 A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor .
23 Designs based on these principles are known as linear voltage regulators to distinguish them from the kind of regulator we are going to investigate in this article .
24 Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers .
25 He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes .
26 The growth of Sunk Island is intimately linked with the Gylby family who , for almost 200 years leased it from the Crown , embanking it as it increased in size .
27 IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ?
28 In too many cases telecoms authorities had persuaded their governments to defend them from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome .
29 Although the ET-6 also makes use of the new T-bass shape , its natural-finished , more exotic woods separate it from the plain old ‘ T ’ version .
30 Deputations of pit brow lasses visited Parliament in the 1880s and in 1911 during campaigns by the miners and some coal owners to exclude them from the collieries .
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