Example sentences of "[to-vb] she from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 2 | Surprisingly light and nimble , he jumped out and extended a hand to help her from the rocking boat . |
| 3 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 4 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 5 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ONE of Prince Charles 's closest friends is to undergo surgery to save her from a crippling disease . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 10 | The passers by stopped to admire her from the large wrought iron gates at the bottom of the drive . |
| 11 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 12 | 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 . |