Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fortunate , Isabel decided , that the screen shielded her from curious eyes as she changed her shift . |
| 2 | The touch of genius that he could evince from moment to moment , if he was exercising self-control , distinguished him from other politicians on both sides of the House . |
| 3 | Mr Newman died on the night of the general election , but police released full details only yesterday after they identified him from dental records . |
| 4 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 5 | The essential characteristics of this primacy which distinguished it from such primacies as that of Hamburg or Lyons were , first , that it was centred in a monastic community , and second , that its roots and its authorization went back ( as Anselm was persuaded ) to its original constitution in the seventh century . |
| 6 | The only widespread bond that clearly separated some of them from Russians was their Catholicism , but it also separated them from fellow Belorussians . |
| 7 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
| 8 | Fundamentally , what was at issue was whether the army , now ideally composed of men with at least a modicum of training and military skill , should be led by men who merited their responsibilities , awarded to them on behalf of the community by the king who paid them from public funds ( ‘ la peccune publique ’ ) . |
| 9 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 10 | ‘ You joined us from Central Records , I see . |
| 11 | There were indeed some who shook their heads and moaned , but on the whole buoyancy , bullishness and general enthusiasm hit me from all sides . |
| 12 | had given , in the course of his judgment , a summary of the law governing the procedure for requiring a specimen of blood or urine under what is now section 7(4) , as he derived it from previous decisions , in the following passage : |
| 13 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 14 | She saw him from fifty yards away , coming towards her ; then he spotted her and when they came together he was smiling and had a hand outstretched with which he took her elbow . |
| 15 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 16 | Each had used her ; none had discovered the essential quality that differentiated her from other lovers . |
| 17 | Beatty remembered him from three years before , when Hackman had a small but impressive scene in Lilith , Robert Rossen 's final film , which starred Beatty . |
| 18 | He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him . |
| 19 | On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ … |
| 20 | The arrival of Joanna , brought from hospital by Ian , distracted her from sorrowful thoughts , for which she was thankful . |
| 21 | You rescued me from those gorillas at the garage , took me out to that dinner and , lo and behold , I came home to find my house ransacked by someone who must have known how long I 'd be away . |
| 22 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |