Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [pron] [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still only insolvent ‘ traders ’ could be discharged from their liabilities by bankruptcy . |
| 2 | She found the house in a pleasant street where each smallish building was separated from its neighbours by a bit of garden . |
| 3 | In the worst cases they have even lost the right to grow up in loving and secure homes , seeking to earn their living on the street or separated from their families by war and civil conflict . |
| 4 | At most sites , strip buildings appear to have been constructed as independent entities , separated from their neighbours by either alleys or narrow lanes . |
| 5 | Countless twentieth-century dictators have been defended from their detractors by pointing out the asceticism of their private lives . |
| 6 | He had seen too many prominent European industrialists toppled from their pedestals by tabloid revelations of the pathetic vanity of their wives , frivolously whittling away the family money on a succession of oversexed gigolos . |
| 7 | Metals can be extracted from their oxides by reduction ( see section 10.5 ) . |
| 8 | A number of hackers ' wives have now joined other grass widows parted from their husbands by golf or similar obsessional activities . |
| 9 | Before we have time to warn him , BEN 's head is rudely parted from his shoulders by OTTO , the band 's lead guitarist who , for ritual purposes , sports ‘ alien ’ headgear and a huge , unwieldy occult Afro comb . |
| 10 | Before we have time to warn him , BEN 's head is rudely parted from his shoulders by OTTO , the band 's lead guitarist who , for ritual purposes , sports ‘ alien ’ headgear and a huge , unwieldy occult Afro comb . |
| 11 | He was suddenly shaken from his thoughts by a car which slid silently to a halt beside him . |
| 12 | Beneath this man-made mechanism of oppression are the people , literally distanced from their surroundings by Kahlo 's use of photo-collage . |
| 13 | They can not be driven from their burrows by conventional means . |
| 14 | In the first seven months of 1992 there were 233,000 requests for asylum in Germany ( primarily from Romania and former Yugoslavia , and excluding refugees driven from their homes by the fighting there ) . |
| 15 | Tears were driven from her eyes by the smoke . |
| 16 | With hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes by the conflict , the economy of these areas has been devastated and government forces are laying siege to many parts of the north , often involving inaccurate and indiscriminate bombardments of civilian population centres . |
| 17 | Biggins was rudely interrupted from his thoughts by the jarring of the front middle and rear turrets firing in unison . |
| 18 | Pinning a bright smile on her face , she carefully placed a sugar bowl on each table , beamed at them all impartially , scurried back for the pile of menus on the counter — only to have them forcibly removed from her hands by Feargal . |
| 19 | The extent to which Louis VI and Louis VII had consolidated royal powers was masked from their contemporaries by their policy of pushing hard only where they knew that resistance was weak . |
| 20 | Where were you in 1922 , Mr. Tully , when thousands of Catholics were forced from their homes by marauding B Specials supported by the illegal British administration ? |
| 21 | At dawn on 27 February 1991 nine Orkney children were taken from their beds by social workers and police , and flown away from their parents and their island homes to ‘ Places of Safety ’ on the Scottish mainland . |
| 22 | In June 1991 , following the trauma in Orkney , the government announced categorically that no more children were to be taken from their homes by social workers in dawn raids . |
| 23 | While some of the fight had clearly faded from his team-mates by the time they reached the Oval , battling Smith was more single-minded than ever . |
| 24 | The red jacket of C/Sgt Nicholl was acquired from his descendants by the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside in 1971 for the collection of the King 's Regiment . |
| 25 | I wondered why this should be when Granny was so particular , but I was soon roused from my thoughts by Mum . |
| 26 | Lepine was knocked unconscious by the impact and a few seconds later his head was hacked from his shoulders by a flurry of coupe-coupe blows rained on him in the driving seat by the surviving coolies . |
| 27 | My being is released from its confines by the overpowering perfume , the glossy greens of the new-born leaves , the fragrance of new life . |
| 28 | He was released from his duties by Conference the year after he became Secretary . |
| 29 | She wore a black dress reaching to just above her knees , suspended from her shoulders by straps no thicker than shoe laces ; black stockings , encasing surprisingly slim legs , and very high-heeled red shoes that elevated her an inch or so above Morse as he stood up and offered her his stool . |
| 30 | A little girl was shown twisting fish-hooks into the penis of a man suspended from his wrists by bronze wire , and in a fifth scene a man and a woman on all fours were yolked together , drawing a miniature cart , whipped by a dwarf charioteer . |