Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 2 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 4 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 5 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 6 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 7 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 8 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 9 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 10 | A sensible place to begin this endeavour is with the mainspring of the story 's action , the Ring ( here capitalised to distinguish it from the relatively insignificant stage-prop or ‘ Equalizer ’ of The Hobbit ) . |
| 11 | Several times the cottage tried to throw me from the scuffle boards , one night she succeeded , I got a badly twisted ankle . |
| 12 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 13 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 14 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 15 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 16 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 17 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 18 | By denying the existence of administrative law in the face of the structural pressures for the growth in administration , the influence which Dicey 's theory had on political and legal thought served to shield us from the realities and to prevent us from addressing the issues raised by these developments in a constructive fashion . |
| 19 | The storms that threatened to pluck him from the summit where he stood barely rippled the grey waters of the lakes that were strung like pearls along the centre of the grassland far below . |
| 20 | In his characteristic phrase , " I am their leader , I must follow them " — but he determined to follow them from the front . |
| 21 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 22 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 23 | This time she started to interrogate me from the very beginning . |
| 24 | The Great Britain forward , sent off for tripping Mike Ford in Saturday 's Regal Trophy defeat by Castleford , presented video evidence to yesterday 's Rugby League disciplinary committee , but it failed to save him from a two-match ban . |
| 25 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 26 | Julia felt worse and worse all the next day , but managed to hide it from the others . |
| 27 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 28 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 29 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 30 | Only this managed to save him from the bullying which would otherwise visit a boy who practically lived within the works of Oscar Wilde . |