Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember , after one lesson , having a sensation of a collar being around my neck which prevented me from turning my head ( similar to the kind people have to wear after painful neck injuries ) . |
| 2 | She was not grief-stricken the way she had been when her father died , but sorrow was a weight which kept her from opening her eyes on a world where she would sorely miss his company . |
| 3 | If a supplier decides to increase his market share by attracting higher usage by occasional users , he must first attempt to find out whether they buy competitors ' goods or not , or where there is something about the present marketing mix which dissuades them from buying more frequently . |
| 4 | Certainly , the law will not imply a term which prevents him from doing so . |
| 5 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 6 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 7 | The problem , in other words , for the British in arguing their case for free trade is that they are up against a deep cultural divide which separates them from most of the other Member States . |
| 8 | In Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 the Court of Appeal held that a restraint on a medical assistant to a partnership which prevented him from practising " in any department of medicine , surgery or midwifery ( or accepting ) any professional appointment " was unreasonable because it covered , inter alia , practice as a consultant or medical officer of health . |
| 9 | It had a depth and penetration which separated it from most other consultants ' reports of the time . |
| 10 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 11 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 12 | A BRIDE-to-be has been left without a wedding cake because the bakery she ordered it from went into receivership . |
| 13 | His ideal was ‘ the complete sympathy of complete detachment ’ , but in practice he distanced himself from his subjects and stressed his severity over the underlying sympathy . |
| 14 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 15 | In some strange way the thought of her arrival had become an intangible shield which protected her from making an idiot of herself . |
| 16 | Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 17 | The presence of a bodyguard was a constant reminder of the invisible veil which separated her from her family and friends . |
| 18 | They have a largely impermeable skin which prevents them from drying out too quickly under a hot sun , although evaporation does take place . |
| 19 | Bartley , 23 , of Bell Walk , Newton Aycliffe , was also charged with having the two guns after a 12 year prison sentence which barred him from owning firearms . |
| 20 | Astron , weighing 3½ tonnes , is in a highly elliptical orbit which takes it from a height of 2000 km up to 200 000 km , half way to the Moon . |
| 21 | Lady I got her from she 's just getting the webs in between her feet and I thought then |
| 22 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 23 | A motorist who went to the aid of a lorry driver whose vehicle was on fire has been killed by another vehicle which hit them from behind . |
| 24 | Rage at a fate which prevented her from screaming and railing at him for so misjudging her , rage at him for playing this cat-and-mouse game with her , rage at herself for letting him get away with it . |
| 25 | I want to be a part of the sport , one sport which encompasses everyone from a small kid who wants to have a go at throwing the javelin because he has seen Steve Backley on television , through to the 60-year-old recreational runner . ’ |
| 26 | The idea came in nineteen ninety two , the early part of nineteen ninety two er from Doctor Frank er who was er sitting on the Race Training Committee who approached it from the point of view we need to obviously broaden the triangle on the competitive side . |
| 27 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |
| 28 | Indeed , the police treated us both with the greatest sympathy and consideration from the moment I rang them from a callbox on the Abingdon Road . |
| 29 | And although the er , the causal relationship is not completely established , it is a very helpful way of remembering that one of the principle distinguishing features of this organism which separates it from other members of the genus staphylococcus it pr it produces this enzyme to coagulate things on and the effects of this enzyme are illustrated here as against the control preparation , you see a clot form due to the action of this enzyme on clotting practice which has been put into this test tube serum . |
| 30 | In Britain most people who are in full-time contracted employment receive full pay for six months , followed by half pay for a further six months , if they have a serious illness or accident which prevents them from working . |