Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Till my husband returns , and rescues me from this misery ! ’ |
2 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
3 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
4 | Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources . |
5 | It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories . |
6 | Oxyhaemoglobin has a high affinity for NO and scavenges it from extracellular media ; methaemoglobin has no such action . |
7 | The antiracism I am criticizing trivializes the struggle against racism and isolates it from other political antagonisms — from the contradiction between capital and labour , from the battle between men and women . |
8 | She added : ‘ He is unable to read a script and has all his lines put on a tape by my 14-year-old niece , Melissa , and learns them from that . ’ |