Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ suggested Grimm , ‘ a Chaos storm warped them from whatever they were before ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Usually the hermit crab utilises a discarded whelk or winkle shell to protect it from predators , but when none is available a plastic jar will do . |
| 4 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 5 | Once the packet is opened , keep the pastry leaves covered with a damp tea towel to prevent them from drying out . |
| 6 | In the 20 years since the National Jazz , Blues And Rock Festival relocated itself from sleepy London toff suburb , Richmond , to its present Thames Valley site , the Reading Festival has become the premier rock gig . |
| 7 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 8 | The Chemics have refused Hornets permission to play McKenzie in their Regal tie against French side Catalan to prevent him from being cup-tied . |
| 9 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 10 | Added to this was the waxing of the fuselage interior to protect it from corrosion in the future . |
| 11 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 12 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 13 | It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire . |
| 14 | The office was empty when Jay got in , and she slid her dream onto her desk with a work folder to hide it from Francis 's camp curiosity . |
| 15 | Did you ever hear the word stip Being used for a pole that was placed against a corn stack to keep it from |
| 16 | A sun umbrella sheltered them from the wan May sunshine . |
| 17 | Or will this Government 's ideological opposition to council housing prevent them from doing that ? |
| 18 | A die-hard SVR4 advocate , Tandem is interested in seeing its fault-tolerant enablers incorporated in the base operating system to save it from having to re-invent the wheel each time a revision is done and to allow it to focus on true value-added differentiators . |
| 19 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |
| 20 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 21 | On Oct. 23 V. P. Singh ordered Advani to be arrested under the Internal Security Act to prevent him from entering Uttar Pradesh . |
| 22 | He then called a security guard ( who wore no uniform , and looked like the type of character I would want a security guard to protect me from ) . |
| 23 | It is remarkable that our Ministers have failed in their responsibilities , claiming that European Community law prevents them from acting . |
| 24 | If Spurs decide to cash in on Durie , they will want at least their money back 16 months after paying a club record fee to lure him from Chelsea . |
| 25 | Alternatively , use a rug or foam mat to protect you from a hard floor . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems to me that what our children have got is a little square box with predominantly soaps and games shows , with fingertip control to get them from one to another as they get bored . |
| 27 | The impact flung Donna forwards in her seat , the safety belt preventing her from hitting the windscreen . |
| 28 | This was a puzzlement , and he was glad he had the soothing spectacle of Midnight Mass to distract him from it . |
| 29 | IF YOU drive through south Coventry the name Nellist assaults you from every angle — daubed in graffiti on walls and bridges and flagged on hundreds of homes . |
| 30 | Earlier , McWalters barrister , Hugh Vass , stressed his client 's ‘ exemplary character ’ and pointed out that letters of character reference included one from a retired police sergeant . |