Example sentences of "him from [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some have argued that the ‘ traditionalism of his general philosophy is so strong that it virtually disables him from that critical rationalism which is essential for the appraisal of particular traditions ’ . |
| 2 | Those who had known him from that earlier period , however , were less than enthusiastic about his elevation . |
| 3 | On that occasion Themistokles carried his view ; but ( Plutarch says ) the Spartans took against him from that moment , preferring to advance Kimon instead . |
| 4 | Punishing someone for doing the wrong thing may inhibit him from that action but does not establish a better pattern . |
| 5 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 6 | He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections , and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that . |
| 7 | If in the unlikely event , if they want to feel a C C Q , let them have it , do n't , do n't because that person may be a tax he , he buys he has to feel what he 's buying and to deprive him from that you really are up against it . |
| 8 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 9 | Here , Davie pays a handsome compliment to one fellow critic by implying that the best of his prose can stand comparison with an eighteenth-century writer 's ‘ sharp and exact delineations of what in one poet 's work distinguishes him from all others ’ . |
| 10 | Politicians are slinging arrows at him from all sides . |
| 11 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 12 | The poet was a member of polite society addressing himself to his equals , and though poetry was a special mode of communication it did not exempt him from all the normal usages of polite society . |
| 13 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 14 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
| 15 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
| 16 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 17 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 18 | Donaldson read the form through and signed it ; only his silence was needed to keep him from all liability . |
| 19 | He , family name of Maclean , should have been addressed in common with all lairds by his title — thus , Macleod , Laird of Raasay was known as ‘ Raasay ’ , to distinguish him from all other Macleods . |
| 20 | The entry will be placed on the Proprietorship Register and will read : Note : The transfer to the proprietor contains a covenant by her with [ Husband ] to pay the monies secured by Charge No 1 and to indemnify him from all claims and demands in respect thereof . |
| 21 | Six of them , ringing him round , closing in on him from all sides . |
| 22 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 23 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 24 | The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells . |
| 25 | When Jean-Claude and I quit Park Terrace we did so with tea-chests packed with valuables of mine , largely selected by him from many more than we could manage to take . |
| 26 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 27 | His blue UN passport rescued him from many frightening situations , including the occasion armed guerillas surrounded his jeep in a warring Central American country . |
| 28 | Theo distracted him from this gloomy conclusion by springing a surprise on him . |
| 29 | There was nothing to raise him from this unless world events should create the opportunity for him . |
| 30 | I know now what her power is strong enough to shatter a man 's mind and cast him from this world . |