Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
| 2 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
| 3 | Their statement was interpreted as an attempt to distance themselves from the so-called ‘ Central Belt activists ’ who withdrew their strongly worded motion at the executive and voted with the six on the statement drawn up by Councillor Rob Gibson which regretted the MPs ' actions . |
| 4 | On April 2 Anania Bartolomeu , a founder member of a study group for the renovation of the Orthodox Church , had reportedly visited Teoctist in an attempt to dissuade him from returning . |
| 5 | This chapter is an account of the process and is an attempt to see it from the family 's perspective . |
| 6 | Maj.-Gen Bantu Holomisa , the leader of the ruling Military Council in the nominally independent Transkei homeland ( whose independence was not internationally recognized ) , accused South Africa of being behind an attempt to remove him from power on Nov. 22 . |
| 7 | Delineating his theory of retreat into illness as a means of obtaining power , he wrote , ‘ Every neurosis must be understood as an attempt to free oneself from a feeling of inferiority in order to gain a feeling of superiority . ’ |
| 8 | The Americans had offered arms , and they had offered peace , in an attempt to salvage something from ‘ this whole friggin' thing ’ . |
| 9 | It was the custom for various floats with tableaux to be wheeled in at midnight , and on this occasion , in an attempt to prevent them from being broken up , the organisers employed large numbers of rugger blues , dressed in white flannels and T-shirts , to act as stewards . |
| 10 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 11 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 12 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 13 | But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking . |
| 14 | And now she spoke kindly , in an effort to stop him from trying so hard . |
| 15 | Elephants in northern Cameroon are being tracked by satellite in an effort to save them from attacks by farmers when they damage crops . |
| 16 | But he made an effort to put it from his mind , asking , ‘ And so — these are your children ? ’ |
| 17 | Riven wriggled his toes inside his boots in an effort to keep them from going numb . |
| 18 | ‘ Where are we heading now ? ’ she asked in an effort to salvage something from the day if it was at all possible . |
| 19 | Greenpeace hopes to identify individual dolphins by the bite and fight marks on their fins , and to chart their behaviour in an effort to protect them from extinction . |
| 20 | In an effort to protect them from the disease , Namibian nature conservation officials have resorted to vaccinating the animals with darts fired from helicopters . |
| 21 | ‘ You know I have n't walked so much during my entire lifetime as I 've walked these last few days , ’ he said with an effort to divert her from her dark thoughts . |
| 22 | Hitch could hear the men shouting now , see them gesticulating madly towards The Abbott in an effort to divert it from what appeared to be a collision course . |
| 23 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 24 | This followed Radio Galaxy 's announcement that the Chief of Police , Maj. Joseph Michel François , an author of the September coup [ see p. 38523 ] , had been arrested after refusing to obey an order dismissing him from his post . |
| 25 | A man representing the Cape Town Censor Board arrived at the theatre bearing an order to stop it from being given because Chrimes , as the Scarlet Woman , was ‘ improperly dressed ’ . |
| 26 | S 45 contains provisions disqualifying certain individuals , such as those subject to an order disqualifying them from acting as company directors , from acting as charity trustees . |
| 27 | Bhutto , who was tear-gassed as she led a march from Rawalpindi to Islamabad demanding fresh elections , was banned from Islamabad for defying an order preventing her from staging a demonstration in Parliament Square . |
| 28 | The categorization of individuals by position in the hierarchy and group membership made it impossible for an individual to divorce himself from his social role . |
| 29 | When Rhun in his kindness lent an arm to raise him from his knees , he hung heavily still , clinging to his desperate humility . |
| 30 | The 20-year-old beauty consultant was released yesterday after five days behind bars for breaking an injunction banning her from pumping up the volume . |