Example sentences of "[verb] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man in the bushes by the gate still worried her but I found it easy to isolate him from our friendship , although she felt now that he was trying to gas her ; the fumes from someone 's central heating outlet , discernible on the otherwise pure air , had inspired and confirmed her in this idea . |
| 2 | O'Neill denies using abusive language to referee Eddy Green , who dismissed him from the dugout during a win over Northwich on March 24 . |
| 3 | In consequence , despite protests from the Diplomatic Corps , the Chinese government dismissed him from his office on 31 January 1927 . |
| 4 | Succeeding to the throne on 20 June 1837 , she dismissed him from her household . |
| 5 | Deciding that it must be because his plans had been thwarted , she firmly dismissed him from her thoughts . |
| 6 | The ruler of Sharjah , Shaikh bin Sultan Mohammed al-Qassimi , on Feb. 4 , 1990 , removed from his brother , Shaikh Abdel-Aziz bin Mohammed al-Qassimi , the title of Crown Prince and dismissed him from the deputy chairmanship of the Sharjah Executive Council . |
| 7 | Even I did not recognise him from his actions . ’ |
| 8 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 9 | leather-covered armchair , the back of which is extended to form a hood over the occupant 's head , thus protecting him from draughts in the hallway of a mansion , where the chair would be situated . |
| 10 | He realized it was shielding him , protecting him from the gunfire . |
| 11 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 12 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 13 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 14 | And what he enjoys even more is the knowledge that their affection is based upon patronizing him from what they take to be their greater radicalism ; while in fact , under the surface , he is more radical than they will ever be . |
| 15 | A ‘ light from heaven ’ allegedly knocks him from his horse and ‘ a voice ’ , issuing from no perceptible source , demands of him : ‘ Saul , Saul , why are you persecuting me ? ’ |
| 16 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 17 | Not only did it free him from Reine , it returned him to préfleur . |
| 18 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 19 | Bantam moved him from a Christmas slot to this summer place last year in an attempt to increase his sales , but this summer the horror leads appear more plentiful , making it a tougher market . |
| 20 | She takes a short cut down Avondale Road , and passes the five-bedroom detached house of Vic Wilcox without a glance , for she does not know him from Adam , and the house is outwardly no different from any of the other modern executive dwellings in this exclusive residential district : red brick and white paint , ‘ Georgian ’ windows , a tarmac drive and double garage , a burglar alarm prominently displayed on the front elevation . ) |
| 21 | ‘ Look here , Jenna , he may be your stepbrother but you do n't know him from Adam . |
| 22 | And I was n't even talking when , I did n't know him from we were talking to him one night . |
| 23 | No , I did n't know him from bloody Adam ! |
| 24 | Aenarion deflected the pulsing energy with his shield but the power of the daemon 's attack cast him from the saddle . |
| 25 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 26 | If the policeman had approached him from behind , for example , and the defendant had acted without seeing who confronted him , he should have the defence , as Williams and Ansell hold . |
| 27 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 28 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 29 | His marriage to Osthryth , the sister of King Ecgfrith , inhibited him from bestowing royal favour on Wilfrid until Archbishop Theodore engineered a reconciliation of offended parties in 686 . |
| 30 | And then the very fire seemed to swallow him up , blurring him from Ruth 's sight . |