Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] 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 | Added to this was the waxing of the fuselage interior to protect it from corrosion in the future . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ANOTHER former employee of Mrs Winnie Mandela has said he lied in court to save her from implication in the murder of Stompie Moeketsi . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | In Zurich we have prevailed upon the promoters to move us from caravans in the car park into a hotel . |