Example sentences of "[to-vb] her from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 2 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 3 | With his usual lightning-swift reactions he took advantage of the moment to pull her from the bed , and as she stumbled against him , his arms tightened about her involuntarily . |
| 4 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 5 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
| 6 | He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone . |
| 7 | Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting . |
| 8 | He would also fight tooth and nail to keep her from the likes of Tommy Allen . |
| 9 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 10 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 11 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of . |
| 12 | It was as if events had conspired to make her forget Ascot , Pendero , the fact that the most important person in her world had been clubbed to death because he wanted to save her from the fate that he had suffered . |
| 13 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 14 | And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert . |
| 15 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 16 | It made him turn to face her from the bottom of the steps . |
| 17 | But she would have preferred him to admire her from the beginning , without the encouragement of her valentine . |
| 18 | Successfully , for the whirlybird changed direction , heading straight for them , and Travis backed off , returning to the hut in time to shield her from the cloud of sand the machine whipped up as it landed . |
| 19 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 20 | The officer delegated to collect her from the station seems to have been more disconcerted than she was . |
| 21 | The only other alternative would be to ask her father to collect her from the party , and , at twenty , that would be too embarrassing for words ! |
| 22 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |
| 23 | Because perhaps — just perhaps — he was the one who 'd come to rescue her from the clutches of Spiderglass . |
| 24 | when he tries to rescue her from the fire . |
| 25 | The woman 's blurred reflection appeared to haunt her from the centre of the glass . |