Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 2 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 3 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 4 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 5 | As I recrossed into Djibouti , villagers sympathetic to the SNM , or just wanting money , hid me from the patrols . |
| 6 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 7 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 8 | The whipmakers plaited their whips through the railings and hung them from the trees . |
| 9 | Your mother was a witch 's daughter , born in your world but not in your time — long before that , in a time when they feared witches and hung them from the gallows tree . |
| 10 | But what really counts is this indirect usefulness to her , it released her from the patterns of the novel of society and therefore , permitted the flowering of her real talent , a talent for finding and giving dramatic form to impulses and feelings which because of their depth , or mysteriousness , or intensity , or ambiguity , or of their ignoring or transcending every day norms of propriety or reason , increase wonderfully the sense of reality in a novel . |
| 11 | As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums . |
| 12 | Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered . |
| 13 | Distanced you from the habits of your health . |
| 14 | By embracing rather than plundering elements of jazz , soul and funk , Jamiroquai 's debut single on Acid Jazz , ‘ When You Gon na Learn ’ , served as the perfect foretaste to his future work and in the process instantly distanced him from the retro-funk-by-numbers style of his less talented peers . |
| 15 | He just pinched it from the Services Liaison Officer 's files in Soltau . |
| 16 | We got him from the Dogs ’ Home and he 's never been very obedient . ’ |
| 17 | Then swabbed the wash-basin clean guided Maxim downstairs and found their shoes and socks moving with a numb efficiency that abstracted him from the terrors of his imagination . |
| 18 | Mr. Sidney Morse , the B.E.T 's solicitor , reminded the Council that the company had paid £1,000 for the Mitcham Light Railway Powers and that in his view , that specifically exempted them from the provisions of the road widening clauses contained in the Bill . |
| 19 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 20 | And I 'm intrigued , I must confess , about what kept you from the delights of the flesh for so long , Caroline — since , once initiated , you showed a remarkable talent for sensual enjoyment . ’ |
| 21 | Medley is ‘ everywhere infinitely a picture ’ ; Lockleigh , ‘ as they saw it from the gardens , a stout grey pile , of the softest , deepest , most weather-fretted hue , rising from a broad , still moat … a castle in legend ’ , is another ‘ noble picture ’ . |
| 22 | A pretty unfinished item too when they first dusted it from the vaults , I would imagine , judging by the amount of reconstruction that 's evidently gone into it . |
| 23 | He took it from the forceps and examined it carefully . |
| 24 | Mam got 'em from the nuns — you could get all sorts of things from the convent in them days . |
| 25 | He got it from the boys instead . |
| 26 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |
| 27 | More important , they were granted a plenary indulgence which freed them from the terrors of purgatory and hell , and held out to them the promise of eternal life in heaven . |
| 28 | He saved you from the clutches of that greasy little man by carrying you off to that back room — ’ |
| 29 | Louis did not at all resemble Dahl 's amiable dream dispenser as Preston remembered him from the twins ' illustrated paperback . |
| 30 | ‘ A reminder of how Bartholomew saved us from the assassins , and a warning of our own deaths . ’ |