Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] from his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 2 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 3 | The categorization of individuals by position in the hierarchy and group membership made it impossible for an individual to divorce himself from his social role . |
| 4 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 5 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
| 6 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 7 | He never reacted hostilely to any such suggestion , except to say to me that she was difficult enough in a friendly association and matters might be worse ( his own words ) if he took any action to remove her from his political scene . |
| 8 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Palmer-Radford 's other son , Oliver , aged six , only discovered what had happened after she failed to collect him from his Catholic prep-school , it emerged yesterday . |
| 10 | It was impossible to tell which from his expressionless gaze . |
| 11 | This adjective , emphasizing its size , is inserted to distinguish it from his great organ ( sic ) , then standing in the theatre at Covent Garden ( which , incidentally , he left not to Smith but to John Rich ) . |