Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give the customers plenty of opportunity to see you from all angles and let them feel the cloth if they want to . |
| 2 | As they strolled deeper into the gardens she became aware that the Pantominteatret was by no means the only form of free entertainment , as their progress led them from one area of performance to another . |
| 3 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 4 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 5 | A cable car takes you from nearby Ehrwald to the Zugspitzkamm station at 9,203 feet which has been partly blasted out of the rock . |
| 6 | The finding of a greater degree of alkaline exposure in the lower oesophagus of patients with complications of their Barrett 's oesophagus distinguishes them from those without complications and poses the question as to the origin of this distinction . |
| 7 | In a bid to protect them from possible attack by Oswald and Eadbald , acting in collusion , Aethelburh sent the Deiran princes for greater protection to the Frankish king , Dagobert I , for fear specifically of Oswald and Eadbald ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 8 | The project of a road connecting the Cariboo gold-fields to the coast occupied him from 1862 . |
| 9 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
| 10 | Apart from injuries manager Jack Charlton insists he wo n't leave key players out of the side to safeguard them from possible suspension . |
| 11 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 12 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , several governments which had participated in the US-led coalition against Iraq now sought to assure Iran that there was no plan to exclude it from post-war regional security arrangements . |
| 14 | I can do no better than to draw the attention of the House to this statement in Labour 's charter for sport : ’ We will review the composition and powers of the Sports Council to free them from political bias ’ . |
| 15 | This attitude protects you from negative suggestions and strengthens your defence mechanism in a socially acceptable way . |
| 16 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 17 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 18 | With a total population estimated at 15–30 million , crabeaters are almost certainly the world 's most numerous seals ( Laws , 1984 ) ; their wide dispersal on pack ice protects them from human depredations . |
| 19 | Here , Davie pays a handsome compliment to one fellow critic by implying that the best of his prose can stand comparison with an eighteenth-century writer 's ‘ sharp and exact delineations of what in one poet 's work distinguishes him from all others ’ . |
| 20 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 21 | On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ … |
| 22 | One of the problems , he said , was that staff were resisting a plan to relocate them from local offices , where they were in touch with industry , to remote district offices . |
| 23 | ‘ Heaven preserve me from all women ; they 're nothing but a damned nuisance when they try to ensure my number-one driver is handicapped before the race has even started ! ’ |
| 24 | It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water . |
| 25 | One of the two largest owls of the region , an enormous , almost eagle-sized bird , the prominent ear-tufts and facial disc distinguishing it from all diurnal birds of prey . |
| 26 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 27 | It is perhaps not coincidental that the same Islanders , whilst wishing to keep their traditional forms of adoption , are also seeking legal security to protect them from undue interference from the natural family . |
| 28 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 29 | Discovered in 1844 , it was called Peyronne 's chloride after its discoverer to distinguish it from another complex with the same formula , known as trans- DDP . |
| 30 | On the north side of this Paddock a low wall separates it from some buildings occasionally used for canine patients , but chiefly as a Storage … |