Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 2 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 3 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 4 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 5 | This is the outer layer of the tent designed to protect you from the elements , usually wind and rain , but it could also be from heat . |
| 6 | Whilst the evident unpopularity of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe may be thought to make such forces reliable in wartime for garrison and rear duties only , fact is that these military forces are trained and equipped for a war with NATO , according to an offensive doctrine of ‘ coalition warfare ’ , designed to place them from the start of hostilities onto an ‘ external front ’ . |
| 7 | Instead it is an elaboration of the task , designed to subtract it from the category of ‘ work ’ and add it to the creative pleasure dimension . |
| 8 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 9 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 10 | Prior to completion of the missives a meeting took place at the farm when an offer was made to purchase it from the defender at a price of £65,000 . |
| 11 | In their initial — and nearly successful — attempt on the Mort Homme the Germans had sought to outflank it from the northeast , and now they tried a similar movement on Côte 304 from the west . |
| 12 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 13 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 14 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 15 | Grand Slam committee administrator Bill Babcock said : ‘ None of us like the situation , but there is undue pressure on him , and we have decided to exempt him from the rule on press conferences for this match , and only this match . ’ |
| 16 | But the company said its investment programme helped raise its visibility in a relatively lifeless marketplace and , in the American laboratory market in particular , helped shield it from the worst effects of the recession . |
| 17 | situation I 'd suspect will be addressed within that other part , I did mention in my presentation that there are a number of inter-related problems here , I can trace about four or five , all of which have a chain reaction one upon the other , unfortunately Brandon is up front so we 've got to tackle it from the other direction . |
| 18 | Oh , our front passenger seat wo n't lock either , you 've got to lock it from the inside , ta |
| 19 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |
| 20 | Low-level ozone , so called to distinguish it from the naturally forming ozone in the stratosphere which accounts for about 90 per cent of the ozone in the atmosphere , is created by the action of sunlight on oxides of nitrogen and reactive hydrocarbons ( volatile organic compounds ) emitted by vehicles and industry . |
| 21 | In 1557 the Tiber changed its course and Ostia Antica ( as it is termed to differentiate it from the modern Lido town ) is now a few kilometres inland and not on the riverside any more . |
| 22 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 23 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 24 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 25 | The proper instrument for the purpose not being at hand , a man was sent to get it from the Bedford Infirmary . |
| 26 | The officer delegated to collect her from the station seems to have been more disconcerted than she was . |
| 27 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 28 | The question , Do androids dream of electric sheep ? , is the central philosophical question in my reading , and a great deal of effort is required to resolve it from the text . |
| 29 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |