Example sentences of "[to-vb] us from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 2 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 3 | I would simply suggest that we should not allow either sentimentality or a genuine concern for retaining decentralized powers in general to distract us from the major , and separate , task of attempting to determine a common policy for all education at all stages in the future . |
| 4 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 5 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ If there is a god who is able to save us from the blazing furnace , it is our God whom we serve , and he will save us from your power , O king ; but if not , be it known to your majesty that we will neither serve your god nor worship the golden image that you have set up . ’ |
| 8 | From 1689 a new form of service was established for that day , thanking God for discovering " the snares of death that were laid for us " in 1605 , " and likewise upon this day " for bringing King William " safely into this Kingdom , to preserve us from the late attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our religion and laws " . |