Example sentences of "[to-vb] they from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We owe it to our children and grandchildren to spare them from the epidemic of smoking-related disease , disability and death from smoking that has marked the middle and later years of the 20th century . |
| 2 | The gypsies themselves are puzzled by the apparant determination of the council to evict them from a site well away from public view . |
| 3 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 4 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 5 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 6 | These volumes are aimed to provide serious students with the rudiments of the craft , and yet to launch them from the craft into inspired practice . |
| 7 | Deputations of pit brow lasses visited Parliament in the 1880s and in 1911 during campaigns by the miners and some coal owners to exclude them from the collieries . |
| 8 | ‘ It 'll probably be easy to eliminate them from the enquiry ; we are n't going to frame anybody or hassle anybody or pull anything heavy . ’ |
| 9 | A spokesman said detectives hoped that if the suspects were not the terrorists they — or someone who recognised them — would come forward to eliminate them from the inquiry . |
| 10 | You used to buy them from the chemist . |
| 11 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 12 | The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present . |
| 13 | First comes the choral nursery rhyme , linked typographically with the italicized passages placed against the right-hand margin to differentiate them from the rest of the text . |
| 14 | You should make these regular and wide , however , to differentiate them from the steps , otherwise they could become dangerous to anyone rushing up them who mistakes a landing for a step . |
| 15 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 16 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 17 | Many artillery men wear a leather jerkin to protect them from the discharge . |
| 18 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 19 | Also , by failing to protect them from the sun , you may cause problems for your kids later . |
| 20 | As the season progressed , so had the heat , and Huy and Merymose stood over the body with their heads wrapped in linen cloths to protect them from the sun . |
| 21 | For such old people one has to ask whether acceptance of their professed wish to stay at home carries with it a responsibility to protect them from the consequences of their infirmity . |
| 22 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 23 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 24 | No wonder then , that in the statement read out by goalkeeper Gary Phillips , they beseeched the players ' union , the Football League and the FA to protect them from the man who has virtually become a tyrant . |
| 25 | The wheels were placed inside in order to protect them from the elements as well as from the deliberate damage that sometimes occurred during water disputes . |
| 26 | The steel bars of the cage were enclosed by tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the elements , except for one side , which was open with just a simple lift bar to move before exit . |
| 27 | The Kamchatkans , a people of eastern Siberia , used to employ the intestines of bears as face-masks to protect them from the glare of the sun ; and they used the sharpened shoulder-blade for cutting grass . |
| 28 | Alice glanced at her own hands , small , neat , the nails immaculately well maintained , and covered with a transparent varnish to protect them from the world . |
| 29 | Some of the houses were built on high platforms to protect them from the June floods . |
| 30 | It is essential to provide shelter for horses to protect them from the extremes of heat , cold , wind , or rain . |