Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible to find such books in your office , or to arrange to borrow them from a public library . |
| 2 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 3 | At midday six guerrilla fighters arrive to help them from a military base near to their village . |
| 4 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 5 | Well I 'm going to do it from a black point of view . ’ |
| 6 | Is she the right person to do it from a Catholic school ? |
| 7 | Alternatively , use a rug or foam mat to protect you from a hard floor . |
| 8 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 9 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 10 | The village hall is run by an energetic committee who have raised sufficient money over the past few years to convert it from a wooden building to a brick one , and to refurbish the interior . |
| 11 | AT FIRST listen there was little on The Black Crowes ' first LP ‘ Shake Your Money Maker ’ to separate it from a hundred other rock'n'roll records which were desperately trying to get their sound across after the Guns N'Roses media boom of the late '80s . |
| 12 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 13 | By now Smallfry was using her other voice , the one that screeched shrilly and somehow managed to transform her from a beautiful movie-star into something savage and frightening . |
| 14 | ONE of Prince Charles 's closest friends is to undergo surgery to save her from a crippling disease . |
| 15 | I felt the miserable decline of my happiness as I imagined the girl 's innocence and the futility of her mother 's efforts to save her from a cruel death . |
| 16 | The Great Britain forward , sent off for tripping Mike Ford in Saturday 's Regal Trophy defeat by Castleford , presented video evidence to yesterday 's Rugby League disciplinary committee , but it failed to save him from a two-match ban . |
| 17 | The intention was to seek lasting cultural changes in the service to transform it from a reactive bureaucracy to a more proactive business-like organisation . |
| 18 | At Larchgrove some expressed the view that the remedial input necessary to develop Tony 's literacy and numeracy could be provided best at a residential school , but there was a stronger view that it would not be to his benefit to remove him from a secure and caring home . |
| 19 | To some extent it is still a feature in the landscape , for Deronda takes Gwendolen to admire it from a special window , round which ‘ a sort of bower had been made … turning it into a recess ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I LEFT the place having helped to transport it from a snotty-nosed , public-school-type club to a place where people from all levels of society came to enjoy cricket . ’ |
| 21 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 22 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 23 | She found herself talking about her father — the way he had brought her up alone , how he had tried to dissuade her from a racing career . |
| 24 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |
| 25 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |
| 26 | Some published material is hand written and of such high quality that it is difficult to distinguish it from a typeset score . |
| 27 | Yesterday , as the country 's Constitutional Court weighed the legality of his weekend move in declaring emergency rule , Mr Yeltsin asserted control over the Russian media to safeguard it from a hardline takeover . |