Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps a strategy for dissuading him from coming round so often . |
| 2 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 3 | ‘ And disappointment in your parents , too , for keeping it from you . ’ |
| 4 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 5 | There is an overwhelming case for giving the D.O. , the most important unit in the whole machine , more responsibility , and for saving him from dancing attendance on Residents who notoriously dodge responsibility . |
| 6 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 7 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 8 | I have to thank you , Jenny , for saving me from an almost certain accident . |
| 9 | By the end of this scene , however , Terentia expresses fulsome gratitude to Dycarbas for saving her from an uncle who had wanted to steal her inheritance . |
| 10 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 11 | The result was that Teshigawara made Belfast the first priority of his UK tour for the Japan Festival — not an easy thing to do , given that the settings will take two whole days to set up , with a further day for transporting them from Britain . |
| 12 | What this means is that B should have raised the substance of his Convention claim under any domestic procedure which was capable of giving him a remedy , including any avenues of appeal , unless , according to Commission practice , there were some reason for excusing him from doing so . |
| 13 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 14 | I thought it probable the police were right , he had sought revenge against Imogen Surkov for separating him from his nice third wife , Vera , and their son . |
| 15 | Many spouses blame this conflict on the organization , and this is reinforced by their partners who similarly blame the organization For separating them from their families . |
| 16 | We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division . |
| 17 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 18 | ‘ I have n't thanked you properly , either , for rescuing me from — from a watery grave . |
| 19 | He 's very conscious of the fact that he 's indebted to him , not just for rescuing him from those awful guardians but for getting him into Grafton Abbey and then arranging for him to work for Mr Harvey . |
| 20 | He credits Gwen and the Lovejoy series for rescuing him from a wasted life of bed-hopping , booze and drugs . |
| 21 | ‘ Nahum , dear , ’ said Elizabeth Bradford , ‘ we 're all used to your fondness for parting us from our wealth , but may we ask what prompted you to choose the Foundling Hospital this year ? ’ |
| 22 | The child itself would want to know who its father was , and the fact that I could get no comfort from the circumstances would be no excuse for hiding them from — him , her ? |
| 23 | It was the penalty for estranging ourselves from Universe . |
| 24 | But as he was brought in six months later when Curzon died , age was hardly a reason for excluding him from an office without portfolio in 1924 . |
| 25 | In other words , women 's caring responsibilities are being used as a ground for excluding them from benefits . |
| 26 | whether the subsidiary undertaking is included in the consolidation and , if not , give reasons for excluding it from consolidation |
| 27 | You say as I understand it that er the possible er use of this land as a strategic reserve is not the main reason er for excluding it from the greenbelt . |
| 28 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 29 | Who 's responsible for shipping it from and into here . |
| 30 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |