Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each generation of legionnaires was expected to carry forward the traditions and ethics of the Legion , handing them down from one man to the next . |
| 2 | That dropped me down from second place . ’ |
| 3 | The law protected farmers living near subsistence level who needed something to carry them over from one harvest to the next , especially if the harvest had been bad . |
| 4 | Instead … each student has become the owner of a collection of statements made by somebody else ( who had either created them or taken them over from another source ) . |
| 5 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 6 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 7 | Rainwater , driven off the highway , fell in a solid wall that cut them off from any view of the outside world . |
| 8 | ‘ Dragging me off from that party . |
| 9 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 10 | This effectively cut them out from higher education . |
| 11 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 12 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 13 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 14 | His intelligence marked him out from other prisoners . |
| 15 | Had their father — the thought aroused crazy laughter — passed it on from some episode in his youth ? |
| 16 | Reliability in supplies : It is likely that a firm has greater control over reliability of supplies if it makes a component rather than buying it in from another firm . |
| 17 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 18 | It is easily cropped by animals ; if it dries out it dies ; and the very success of the asexual generation with their arching fronds cuts it off from life-giving light . |
| 19 | The positivist attempt to disengage itself from legal conceptions of crime and the operations of legal processes generally , clearly marked it off from classical criminology . |
| 20 | Or we could have rounded it up from 913.5 metres . |
| 21 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 22 | I just pulled it up from that bottom . |
| 23 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
| 24 | Peter Scudamore 's mount took it up from Jinxy Jack two out and sprinted clear on the flat , landing the odds by five lengths from Gordon Richards ' horse , with Fidway two lengths away in third . |
| 25 | You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains . |
| 26 | They used to move us round from one home to another all the time . |