Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they strolled deeper into the gardens she became aware that the Pantominteatret was by no means the only form of free entertainment , as their progress led them from one area of performance to another . |
| 2 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 3 | Evesham drew them from several Cotswold parishes ; the abbot of Owston received 2 marks a year from Tickencote . |
| 4 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 5 | It was fortunate , Isabel decided , that the screen shielded her from curious eyes as she changed her shift . |
| 6 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , facing Mrs Bottomley reduced me from passionate eloquence to an inarticulate oaf , and my opportunity was lost . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Newman died on the night of the general election , but police released full details only yesterday after they identified him from dental records . |
| 10 | His health prevented him from active service in World War I but from 1916 he worked in the war trade intelligence department and in Admiralty research . |
| 11 | It has now been shown that Ramsay continued to develop and refine his style until an injury to his painting arm in March 1773 prevented him from further work . |
| 12 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 15 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 16 | The only widespread bond that clearly separated some of them from Russians was their Catholicism , but it also separated them from fellow Belorussians . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 19 | ‘ When Napoleon besieged Jaffa , ’ Damiani said , ‘ my ancestor Anton Damiani interceded on behalf of the Muslim population and protected them from French anger — we have an official certificate from the sharia court to this effect . ’ |
| 20 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he obtained a Commission in the Regular Army before the Great War of 1914 — 1918 , in which he was wounded by a sniper 's bullet through a lung , and would have died but for the fact that one of his men , having also been wounded , fell on top of ‘ Monty ’ and thereby , protected him from further sniper bullets until darkness permitted rescue to be made . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ You joined us from Central Records , I see . |
| 24 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 25 | There were indeed some who shook their heads and moaned , but on the whole buoyancy , bullishness and general enthusiasm hit me from all sides . |
| 26 | 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 : |
| 27 | That way you can tell yourself you took me from another man . ’ |
| 28 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 29 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |
| 30 | Allison turned Book into a League star at the age of 30 when he took him from non-League Bath City to Plymouth Argyle . |