Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] from " in BNC.

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1	It seemed to me that she should have taken my part , should somehow have defended me from my father .
2	I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself .
3	When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment .
4	This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life .
5	‘ We do n't particularly want to protect him from infection .
6	Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather .
7	Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so .
8	You accused me of being blinkered , but you 're just as bad , wo n't even try to understand it from my point of view . ’
9	Erm , I would think you 'll either have to get it from Scarborough or Whitby .
10	His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now .
11	She would never have guessed it from the wildly anachronistic costumes .

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