Example sentences of "and [verb] me from " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Till my husband returns , and rescues me from this misery ! ’
2 He went on : ‘ The truth of the matter is that Mr Branson and the Virgin Group appear to be ’ determined to get the company exclusively for themselves and to exclude me from it .
3 One evening , when his golf match had been cancelled , he decided to drive down and collect me from the river .
4 The delay was enough for Clerval to catch me and seize me from behind .
5 After another moment or two , Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the pub .
6 Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the clinic , onto the green and into the car where Anita sits at the wheel .
7 I chased one into a warehouse where he managed to double back and attack me from behind .
8 His unfailing support , wide advice , strong advocacy and practical help sustained and encouraged me from my start in September 1967 as FYT 's first paid staff person .
9 John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) .
10 But but if you if you wanted to er come and meet me from work we could go straight off somewhere then .
11 Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London .
12 I could have sat and stared all evening but Benjamin suddenly realised the drift of my eyes as well as my lechery and , at the appropriate time , seized me by the arm and hustled me from the hall .
13 I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back .
14 Or perhaps she thought she could always pretend to be a relative and come and claim me from the hospital .
15 ‘ And d' you feel you could sweep them from my ground and deliver me from my past — or reconstruct my life without the shards of my past — or what ? ’
16 For over a year David wrestled with a guilty conscience because of his adultery with Bathsheba and other crimes which followed and his anguish and desire to be right with God are recorded in Psalm 51 ‘ Have mercy upon me , O God … blot out my transgressions . ’ ( v. 1 ) ‘ Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin . ’
17 You had made me , but why had you not looked after me , and saved me from this pain and unhappiness ?
18 Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . )
19 ‘ I always felt as if you rode in on a white charger and saved me from my loneliness .
20 Having seen me she had also seen that I was alone , and watching me from cover as she undoubtedly was , she would assume I was going to the pool to drink as she had done .
21 That is what frightens me and stops me from telling her .
22 That is what frightens me and stops me from telling her .
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