Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 2 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 3 | If we seek to protect ourselves from doubt in matters of belief , the result will be ‘ inactivity ’ . |
| 4 | He casts them aside to read one from Batman in Nagoya , who claims that the Thunder Dragon and Metal Black video games employ the same game-matrix with different graphics and scoring systems . |
| 5 | Added to this was the waxing of the fuselage interior to protect it from corrosion in the future . |
| 6 | Recently , and at vast expense , Loch Ken has been revitalised and restocked , because it had become fishless ; and there is evidence that many other lochs , surrounded by conifer plantations , will need similar treatment to save them from ruin in the foreseeable future . |
| 7 | Mr Endara was moved to distance himself from proposals in Washington to support anti-Noriega parties with CIA funds , describing the scheme as ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 8 | During September there were signs that Jordan was attempting to distance itself from Iraq in order to restore relations with its former allies in the Gulf . |
| 9 | ANOTHER former employee of Mrs Winnie Mandela has said he lied in court to save her from implication in the murder of Stompie Moeketsi . |
| 10 | A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear . |
| 11 | In the 1980s , the WFTU had over 200 million members in 70 countries ( most of Eastern Europe and communist unions in Western Europe and Japan ) , though the Italian communist trade union had withdrawn and the French began to distance themselves from WFTU in the mid-1970s , ostensibly to improve the climate for domestic solidarity . |
| 12 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 13 | If the failed attempt to oust him from Wadham in 1654 was the work of stricter puritans who suspected him of reducing Christianity to morality , so in the 1660s his ‘ club for comprehension ’ evoked the censure of high churchmen . |
| 14 | In Zurich we have prevailed upon the promoters to move us from caravans in the car park into a hotel . |
| 15 | 2.14 The Landlord shall procure that the obligations of the contractor under clause of the Building Contract are complied with within the period applicable but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 [ of this agreement and in clause [ s ] of the Lease ] the Landlord shall with effect from the Certificate Date be under no liability to the Tenant in respect of any failure to carry out the Works in accordance with clauses 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 ( save as regards matters specified in any Defects Notice which were not remedied to the Surveyor 's [ reasonable ] satisfaction ) The part of this clause commencing … but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 … to the end of the clause should be deleted , as a tenant may consider it unreasonable for a landlord to exempt itself from liability in this manner . |