Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sections 6 and 7 of the UCTA override these provisions , and , in effect , provide for mandatory inclusion of such warranties in the contracts covered by these sections , since the easiest way to exclude liability for breach of such warranties is to exclude them altogether from the terms of the contract . |
| 2 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 3 | After delivering 10-year-old William and eight-year-old Harry to Charles on Wednesday night , the princess chose to hide herself away from the world at her family home of Althorp , ready for her worst Christmas ever . |
| 4 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 5 | Though it was n't a difficult test , it was sufficient to distract him temporarily from the fear . |
| 6 | Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol . |
| 7 | At the top of the social scale the five largest houses in 1670 had five hearths apiece , which was hardly grandiose but was sufficient to set them apart from the rest . |
| 8 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 10 | The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy . |
| 11 | You see , I needed to see you away from the château , and I could n't be sure you 'd come with me today . |
| 12 | When I move against them do not expect me to treat you differently from the way I treat them . |
| 13 | This means that Mr Skinner , who voted in more Commons divisions than any other MP last session , will have to absent himself occasionally from the chamber . |
| 14 | Over 100 Labour Members of Parliament began to urge the government to dissociate itself entirely from the war . |
| 15 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 16 | They told the lieutenant over at the hotel , but he wanted to hear it directly from the company . |
| 17 | The Poet evidently wants to detach himself totally from the Friend , stand away from him as if he might suffer corruption or contagion by going any nearer . |
| 18 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 19 | Let us all pray earnestly to God to guide him away from the swamp . ’ |
| 20 | I mean I was asked to do it right from the word go was n't I ? |
| 21 | Staff members tried to keep them away from the soft-hearted President , consigning them to the Vice-president not because Bush was more callous , North explained , but because it was Reagan who had to make the policy decisions . |
| 22 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 23 | It is , however , quicker and more accurate to calculate them arithmetically from the summary points . |
| 24 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 25 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 26 | There is only one reservation : should Miss Jade bear a daughter , can Mr Jagger guarantee that he will in future years be able to keep her away from the attentions of his bass ( sic ) colleague , Mr William Wyman ? |
| 27 | Storming into the restaurant where the Italian and Miss Maughan 's character were dining , he invented some story about having to keep her away from the paparazzi ( which he probably thinks is the coffee you buy in Venice ) and whisked her off her feet back to his place . |
| 28 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 29 | But , says Alfred , it would take more than Hollywood stardom to lure him away from the Sussex cottage he shares with Jill and 12-year-old Rachel , his daughter from a previous relationship . |
| 30 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |