Example sentences of "[vb past] them from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millie 's new mistress paused as if uncertain what to do next ; then turning quickly about , she led them from the kitchen into the hall and to the open front door again , and looked to where her children were all standing round the pony and cart . |
| 2 | The barmaid led them from the bar and up some rickety steps . |
| 3 | The Supreme Council of the armed forces on Jan. 8 sentenced Mohamed Ali Seineldin , Luis Baraldini , Oscar Ricardo Vega and four other officers to indefinite imprisonment and discharged them from the army as the ringleaders of a military rebellion on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 4 | Graham recognised them from the Art School ; they were talking and laughing . |
| 5 | The Private Secretary — Michael Marsden , he remembered with an effort — signalled them from the door and McLeish moved forward , keen to see what the kingpin of this row of skittles looked like . |
| 6 | Gently , I extracted them from the soil with the trowel I 'd brought more as alibi than implement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Instead , he was leaning forward , peering through the glass that separated them from the chauffeur and glaring furiously at the car in front of them . |
| 9 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 10 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 11 | He scrambled down into the cold , howling plain that separated them from the stones . |
| 12 | The shops on the Garlands ' side of the street backed on the water and only a narrow paved walk separated them from the harbour . |
| 13 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
| 14 | Now only another thirty yards of lawn separated them from the side wall of the house . |
| 15 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 16 | They abandoned the ride and walked instead in the shade of the trees beside the track , but although this protected them from the sun 's rays the leaden heat was everywhere and there was no escaping it . |
| 17 | The band were initially looking for a lighting rig and a PA system to do a gig in Aberdeen and obtained them from the music shop she worked in . |
| 18 | Joyriders ripped them off and threw them from the window as they sped through the Blackbird Leys estate to the Oxford Speedway Stadium . |
| 19 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 20 | Adam followed them from the security of the trees , watched the senior officer talking as the others listened and followed him . |
| 21 | The whipmakers plaited their whips through the railings and hung them from the trees . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The glass itself was converted into smudged mirrors which enlarged their ambience and distanced them from the storm . |
| 24 | At that moment Basil called them from the house . |
| 25 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |
| 26 | Several children did not join their friends in the water but watched them from the balustrade along the main road . |
| 27 | Philip watched them from the window . |
| 28 | As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums . |
| 29 | Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh ! the bones ! ’ said Flora , and brought them from the kitchen — in a Harrods ' bag . |