Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] 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 | Dorothy 's own attempt to preserve something from those final Somerset months produced a document more private , but hardly less remarkable . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The Labour Party 's environment spokesman , Dr David Clark , described the government 's decision as ‘ a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment ’ . |
| 5 | The positivist attempt to disengage itself from legal conceptions of crime and the operations of legal processes generally , clearly marked it off from classical criminology . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Apart from injuries manager Jack Charlton insists he wo n't leave key players out of the side to safeguard them from possible suspension . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 11 | Some people very frightened of their homosexual leanings may consciously or unconsciously enter a defensive marriage to protect themselves from these feelings . |
| 12 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | THOSE who yearn for the smiling helpfulness of American skiing , but whose credit limits do not permit access to it , can console themselves with the news that the French resort of Les Arcs is launching a campaign to distinguish itself from competing resorts by encouraging staff to be unfailingly polite . |
| 15 | I should happily give way — if it were in my power to do so — to give them the opportunity to dissociate themselves from that appalling motion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Some of these are deeply rooted and irrational ; they spring from fears about ageing and death and from the psychological need to distance ourselves from selected groups of people ( homosexuals , blacks , etc . ) . |
| 21 | Quite clearly he was torn between his desire to excuse himself from further cross-examination and his obedience to the protocol which kept him in the presence of a member of the Royal Family until he was dismissed . |
| 22 | In any case where the buyer ‘ deals as consumer ’ it is impossible for the seller to exempt himself from any of his liability under sections 12–15 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality . |
| 25 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 26 | Through remarks like these the police were normalizing the behaviour to distinguish it from that which cam be expected from gougers . |
| 27 | To stop splatter from spilling into the conversations of people using analogue phones , the digital frequencies require buffer zones of precious spectrum to separate them from analogue channels . |
| 28 | ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger . |
| 29 | You know all the psychiatrists will tell you that comedy is a kind of biological mechanism to save us from all the things we fear most , death being one of the , you know , the most is just a spit away you see . |
| 30 | Although some lesbians exploited the opportunity to distance themselves from dirty , dangerous male sexuality , a vastly disproportionate number devoted themselves to AIDS work . |