Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 2 | But he is flying in the face of opposition from the ruling Labour group who recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat saying it was too early to bring them in from the cold . |
| 3 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 4 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 5 | ‘ We put them in , me an ’ my friends , brought them down from the lake . |
| 6 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 7 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 8 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 9 | ( I prefer to gently lever them off from the underside with a small screwdriver ) . |
| 10 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 11 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 12 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 13 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you want me to pick you up from the airport ? ’ |
| 15 | Today your American Tours motorcoach will pick you up from the hotel lobby at 8am . |
| 16 | Four Dopplemayr chairlifts take you up from the hotel at 2,000m to the summit at 3,000m . |
| 17 | I said : ‘ You know as I drove along Princes Street to pick you up from the office I had a feeling I left something behind . |
| 18 | ‘ And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel , At even , then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt : And in the morning , then ye shall see the glory of the Lord ; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord : and what are we , that ye murmur against us ? |
| 19 | ‘ I was just trying to rule you out from the start . |
| 20 | If the job or employer is unusual , then it may be helpful to go into more detail in advance of your interview , simply to allow whoever is vetting your application to pick you out from the crowd . |
| 21 | These are often big production numbers printed in full colour , but even this may not single you out from the crowd . |
| 22 | Sometimes , he would add lines like : ‘ You 've got to pick them up from the carpet , or they 'll tread in . |
| 23 | Well a cos then you can pick them up altogether if , are you with me , if you 're doing the rounds for your friends cos some of them 'll be on there and some 'll be Pick them up from the front , it 's just that some of the stuff will be at the front and some of it wo n't . |
| 24 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 25 | Great flights of fire-breathing beasts swooped on the armies of the night , and drove them back from the heart of Ulthuan to the shores of the island-continent . |
| 26 | If she was really too old to cure herself of facetious thoughts , at least she could bite them back from the tip of her tongue . |
| 27 | Hundreds of riot police then charged repeatedly at scores of Left-wingers and pushed them back from the podium so that President Weizsaecker could begin his speech . |
| 28 | Elijah has to drag them back from the worship of the heathen fertility gods introduced by Jezebel . |
| 29 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 30 | These three groups share common characteristics which mark them out from the rest of the population , even from many of those who are on low income . |