Example sentences of "be [verb] them from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 2 | No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then . |
| 3 | Now Koquillion claims he is protecting them from the wrath of his people . |
| 4 | The wholesaler 's only sanction against non-cooperating members is to expel them from the group , whereas in the case of the variety multiples a recalcitrant manager can be quickly removed . |
| 5 | All you 're doing is taking them from the objection , which is , well , we 're not prepared to give a decision , take them from that objection to where you want them do it with me , can you do it ? |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 7 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 8 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |