Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 2 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
| 3 | Despite adopting some of the paramilitary trappings of the old Carson Ulster Volunteers , the UPV made significant efforts to discipline the movement and separate it from illegal violence . |
| 4 | Oxyhaemoglobin has a high affinity for NO and scavenges it from extracellular media ; methaemoglobin has no such action . |
| 5 | To do this , we used experimental criteria to characterise and distinguish it from arachidonic acid , prostaglandin , chollagen , thrombin , or adenosine diphosphate ( see Methods ) . |
| 6 | The antiracism I am criticizing trivializes the struggle against racism and isolates it from other political antagonisms — from the contradiction between capital and labour , from the battle between men and women . |
| 7 | DPP ( 1987 ) the Australian High Court denounced the doctrine of excessive force as too complicated for juries and removed it from Australian law . |
| 8 | For certain there will be changes , but it is doubtful if there will ever be such a long line of devoted , generous and hardworking people as those who served the Club so enthusiastically in immensely difficult times , and saved it from certain closure for the likes of ourselves to enjoy . |
| 9 | And so she did , to watch over the site and guard it from dark forces . |
| 10 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |