Example sentences of "him from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her death delivers him from the ordeal of divorce , as frequent as funerals are in his books . |
| 2 | I can see him from the kitchen window you see . |
| 3 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 4 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 5 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 6 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 7 | We got him from the RSPCA and he is my first dog . |
| 8 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 9 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 10 | When Sir Geoffrey Howe last summer tried insisting that she name a date for next year she refused and later sacked him from the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 12 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 13 | Moreover the young hero was never alone ; he always had a pure process , waiting for him , holding the thread of life which would protect him from the flames and the teeth and the dark belly of the monster . |
| 14 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 15 | ‘ WE HAVE decapitated him from the dictatorship , ’ said General Powell , briefing the press in the Pentagon on Sky , which comes into its own on stories like this . |
| 16 | But though certain extremely powerful individuals — like Kraus and his mother — enslave him , it is people , ‘ ordinary ’ folk who are to him completely extraordinary , who free him from the greatest enchanter of them all — books . |
| 17 | We have decapitated him from the leadership of his country . |
| 18 | When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness . |
| 19 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 20 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 23 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 24 | We got him from the Dogs ’ Home and he 's never been very obedient . ’ |
| 25 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 26 | Because you 've been crackers about Christopher , in love with him from the cradle . |
| 27 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 28 | When Nigel came back he lay down on his stomach and held out a big stick which the Mayor clutched and Otley and I pushed him from the back until we got him out none the worse for his adventure . |
| 29 | The blood of circumcision , just like the blood of animal sacrifice , could also be viewed as cleansing the boy of his mother 's blood and acting as a rite of separation , differentiating him from the female , and allying him with the male community . |
| 30 | Then had come the shock of seeing a face peering out at him from the attic window . |