Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] from the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . )
2 It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead .
3 Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her .
4 J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both .
5 Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable .
6 Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them …
7 He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble .
8 Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry .
9 My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew .
10 Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others .
11 And they 've clouted it from the outside going in .
12 She had flattered his self-esteem , protected him from the minor irritations of life , preserved his privacy with maternal pugnacity , had ensured , with infinite tact , that he knew all he needed to know about what was going on in his Laboratory .
13 Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion .
14 It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last .
15 They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands .
16 I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits .
17 His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now .
18 He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division .
19 They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive .
20 No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me .
21 ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open .
22 He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country .
23 ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him .
24 You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you .
25 He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end .
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