Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there is an opportunity of being able to screen it from the Farnsfield direction . |
| 2 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |
| 3 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 4 | The tight-lipped reply : ‘ We 're supposed to protect you from the IRA , not the voters . ’ |
| 5 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 6 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 7 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 8 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 9 | The new committee , reportedly dominated by political figures close to the military establishment , was believed to reflect the army 's growing alienation from the policies of the Ghozali government ; although Ghozali remained a member of the FLN central committee he was considered as having tried to distance himself from the FLN as much as possible . |
| 10 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 11 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 12 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 13 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 14 | The proper instrument for the purpose not being at hand , a man was sent to get it from the Bedford Infirmary . |
| 15 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 16 | ‘ They are attempting to drive us from the Highlands , but they can not . |
| 17 | The calendar in use today is known as the Gregorian or New Style , to distinguish it from the Julian or Old Style , and was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 . |
| 18 | We used to rent it from the Kipling family before Daddy bought it , but even my great-grandfather William Bayles farmed at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 19 | It would be difficult to prove anything from the VW — it got pretty crumpled going down the hill . |