Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hung it on a branch to keep it from getting damp . |
| 2 | A CLEVELAND fireman is appealing against a decision to transfer him from Thornaby fire station to his home town of Billingham . |
| 3 | A third is transput instructions , requiring a field to specify one from a range of peripheral devices . |
| 4 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The driver on top was huddled into a blanket to protect himself from the elements . |
| 7 | If , on the other hand , you allow rationality to children , then you can not use their lack of it as a criterion to distinguish them from adults . |
| 8 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 9 | In Jennings , above , the accused had a sheathknife to protect himself from a person with whom he had been quarrelling . |
| 10 | Anything you can suggest as a remedy to prevent me from parting with my few remaining strands of hair will be welcome . |
| 11 | The news will throw Tottenham 's future to fresh confusion and leave the club hoping desperately that manager Terry Venables can put together a deal to save them from collapse . |
| 12 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 13 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 14 | So the film company organized a car to take him from Reading to Pangbourne . |
| 15 | In a bid to protect them from possible attack by Oswald and Eadbald , acting in collusion , Aethelburh sent the Deiran princes for greater protection to the Frankish king , Dagobert I , for fear specifically of Oswald and Eadbald ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ It 's lonely being a long way ahead so you have to get youself into a cocoon to protect yourself from the thoughts that can trouble your mind . ’ |
| 17 | One of the problems , he said , was that staff were resisting a plan to relocate them from local offices , where they were in touch with industry , to remote district offices . |
| 18 | In Donaghy [ 1981 ] Crim LR 644 ( Crown Court ) , the accused ordered a taxi-driver to take him from Newmarket to London and made threats to his life . |
| 19 | THOSE who yearn for the smiling helpfulness of American skiing , but whose credit limits do not permit access to it , can console themselves with the news that the French resort of Les Arcs is launching a campaign to distinguish itself from competing resorts by encouraging staff to be unfailingly polite . |
| 20 | She laughed , then knew she must make a move to release herself from his embrace — otherwise he 'd imagine she was actually waiting to be kissed . |
| 21 | When it was pointed out that he would need a telescope to see it from there , he replied that being an ex-naval man , he never looked at anything without the use of a telescope . |
| 22 | Celtic 's offer of around eighty thousand pounds stands and Macari is now considering a package to take him from Stoke City where he 's a firm favourite with the fans after leading them into the English First Division . |
| 23 | The third month of their captivity passed , and Sycorax could now hobble further , when the opiates for a moment eased her from her rack of pain . |
| 24 | As I mentioned earlier , they glide round in an arc and it is a hell of a job to prevent them from plunging into the weeds some way along your own bank . |
| 25 | There is no question that fighting a war to eject him from Kuwait is going to make all the problems of the Middle East more difficult to solve . |
| 26 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 27 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 28 | Only one shower for the whole crew today , and just a curtain divides us from Pearl Jam . |
| 29 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 30 | It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water . |