Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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1 | Still not enough to tempt you from the tourist route ? |
2 | A big hat : with a brim large enough to protect you from the sun and the eyes of the curious , thus allowing you to look enigmatic when you 're merely asleep . |
3 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
4 | It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit . |
5 | It was West Ham 's first victory for nearly 2½ months , but was not enough to lift them from the bottom of the First Division . |
6 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
7 | He wrenched the knife back and forth to free it from the planking . |
8 | They 've got enough from the stomach alone to kill him twice over and they 've still to separate it from the liver and muscles . |
9 | These volumes are aimed to provide serious students with the rudiments of the craft , and yet to launch them from the craft into inspired practice . |
10 | A spokesman said detectives hoped that if the suspects were not the terrorists they — or someone who recognised them — would come forward to eliminate them from the inquiry . |
11 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |
12 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |