Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 2 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 3 | I managed to dissuade her from that and we settled on lunch together the following day . |
| 4 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 5 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 6 | Not because of any failure , but because his employers wanted to promote him from temporary to permanent status and this required checking his background . |