Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may know that the vehicle has been taken , but seek positively to absent himself from the scene and the commission of the aggravated offence . |
| 2 | Speich barely restrained himself from grabbing it out of her hand . |
| 3 | Two terrified passers-by , caught in the middle of the second blast at Cateaton Street , try desperately to shield themselves from the force of the explosion as they are engulfed by billowing smoke . |
| 4 | If you ca n't remember it , do n't copy it : look at it again , and try again to write it from memory . |
| 5 | Yet once inside the quilted cocoon she could n't sleep , but lay there watching him from beneath her lashes . |
| 6 | And if I handle all with my own hands , and keep the prince clear of it — though he knows my mind , and it is his mind , too — I do so to preserve him from harassment by those who will hear of nothing less than Owen 's head on London Bridge . |
| 7 | You do better to hang me from mango tree without more ado about nothing . " |
| 8 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 9 | Youngsters often leave home to spend anything from two months to a year on one of the country 's 273 kibbutzim . |
| 10 | 14–5–1844 " The Session considering that James Gibson , under process for the crime of fornication , ( with Ann Darroch ) , has submitted to the discipline of the Church , appeared publically and been rebuked before the congregation , and hoping from the professions he now makes , as well as the readiness with which he submitted to discipline , that he is penitent , do now absolve him from censure and admit him to the enjoyment of privileges . " |
| 11 | Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 13 | But you 've only got one from there ! |
| 14 | But we 've just had somebody from Glasgow go down to do my own course in Humberside . |
| 15 | If you 've just bought it from a shop and you 've had it years |
| 16 | Because when my government does see the pattern — you 're quite right they do n't want to see it right now and my D-G is n't helping them — but when these people do the next thing , and it 'll have to be something big — they 're up against a deadline on Berlin they 've already escalated it from forged documents to drugging people to shooting them God knows what comes next well when something new happens the lone psychopath theory will be dead , dead , dead . |
| 17 | They 've got enough from the stomach alone to kill him twice over and they 've still to separate it from the liver and muscles . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |
| 19 | You 've probably saved me from some kind of demonic sacrifice . |
| 20 | We 've even got someone from Bristol , ’ adds Prue . |
| 21 | I 've never had somebody from my class should be able to beat passive assertive that way find it difficult to do that one . |
| 22 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 23 | A Constituent Assembly was elected in May 1990 but the military authorities have effectively prevented it from convening . |
| 24 | The Government did nothing and have apparently learnt nothing from the experience . |
| 25 | ‘ I have already got it from the beat constable that she was n't there at four o'clock . ’ |
| 26 | Pride always restrained her from describing her mother 's attitudes in too much detail , and she tended rather to laugh them off , but nevertheless her friends had some shrewd notion of the situation . |
| 27 | I have probably saved you from years of frustration , waiting and hoping for someone good enough to come along and kill the one I have taken from you . ’ |
| 28 | Ladbrokes had quoted Jenny Pitman 's gelding , who has been off the course for over two and a half years , at 33-1 but have now scratched him from their list . |
| 29 | The largely voluntary history of its development , set out in Chapter 2 , attests to the way in which many courses within the Polytechnic have seen their interests as lying within the modular scheme , and the way in which new subject areas and approaches have then influenced it from inside . |
| 30 | This was the 316th year of the society , but events such as wars with Napoleon , ‘ Kaiser Bill ’ and Hitler have occasionally prevented it from taking place . |