Example sentences of "[verb] him from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 2 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 3 | It was gone in a trice , saving him from a terrible thrashing or many long hours standing in disgrace . |
| 4 | The burning midday sun roused him from a feverish sleep . |
| 5 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 6 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 7 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 8 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 9 | Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius . |
| 10 | She moved house and with the cooperation of the new local head teacher changed Tom 's mainstream school , and withdrew him from the off-site unit . |
| 11 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 12 | ‘ I remember him from a long time ago . |
| 13 | The first tug had awoken him from a complacent slumber , the second had brought him to his feet . |
| 14 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 15 | Beccaria 's unwillingness to allow individual differences — whether in terms of personal characteristics or socio-economic position — to enter into considerations of punishment , also distanced him from the positivist version of human manipulability . |
| 16 | With him was his shadow , the poetic Zborowski , who , in brotherly friendship , wanted to protect him from the dangerous life of Nice . |
| 17 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 18 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 19 | He credits Gwen and the Lovejoy series for rescuing him from a wasted life of bed-hopping , booze and drugs . |
| 20 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 21 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 22 | Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox . |
| 23 | For men such as Sidonius Apollinaris ( c. 431– c. 480 ) , the Gallo-Roman aristocrat who became bishop of Clermont , saw his inherited traditional culture as an integral part of his Roman Christianity , distancing him from the barbarian heretic . |
| 24 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 25 | His small son , age five , was hanging from a steel bar eight or ten feet above the ground while William 's , a year older , taunted him from a greater height and threatened to tread on his fingers to make him drop . |
| 26 | Johnson , contradicting him , took him from the particular belief to the general likelihood : from the possibility of a singular holy place to the generic derivation from water : ‘ Had it been an accidental name , the similarity between it and Anaitis might have had something in it ; but it turns out to be a mere physiological name . ’ |
| 27 | . Thought better by Jewry itself to withdraw him from the public gaze . |
| 28 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |
| 29 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 30 | The Great Britain forward , sent off for tripping Mike Ford in Saturday 's Regal Trophy defeat by Castleford , presented video evidence to yesterday 's Rugby League disciplinary committee , but it failed to save him from a two-match ban . |