Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 2 | you probably got them from the same place . |
| 3 | Huge golden canopies shielded them from the 100-degree heat . |
| 4 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 5 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 6 | It was Karl Franz who led the charge of the Reiksguard at the battle of Norduin against the Bretonnians , where the Emperor 's personal valour finally broke the resistance of the Bretonnian flank guard and drove them from the narrow defile which they had defiantly held throughout the battle . |
| 7 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 8 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 9 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 10 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 11 | Strong hands lifted her from the rocking horse , and sat her on the table . |
| 12 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 13 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 14 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 15 | They became aware , therefore , of the vast gulf that separated them from the supreme Reality and the great confessional religions were born to meet these new conditions . |
| 16 | Fewer than fifteen hundred votes separated them from the winning Conservative last time round . |
| 17 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 18 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 19 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 20 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 21 | She moved house and with the cooperation of the new local head teacher changed Tom 's mainstream school , and withdrew him from the off-site unit . |
| 22 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 23 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 24 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 25 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 26 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 27 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 28 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 29 | He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me . |
| 30 | Sheepishly he collected them from the back door and they started out again . |