Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] him from the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | LITTLE Miss Bossy Emma Gardner keeps a firm grip on her brother after saving him from the clutches of a child abductor . |
2 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
3 | Harbour , having scanned the field for Geoffrey — he had some notion of rushing him from the rear and felling him with a rabbit-chop — ran off to compare notes with Dotty and the others . |
4 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
5 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |
6 | In the case of the elder James Stephen 's commitment to antislavery , it came after the experience of working in the West Indies as a lawyer , but more precisely , that experience helped direct into antislavery the expression of his gratitude ‘ for the infinite mercy of God ’ in extricating him from the depths of sin brought on by sexual passion and setting him on the path of prosperity and happiness . |
7 | How haughty it would seem to refuse the aid of a Brother … so that others must inconvenience themselves by fishing him from the void . |
8 | The Race Relations Act 1976 makes it illegal for an LEA or governors to discriminate on the grounds of colour , race , ethnic or national origins or nationality against a pupil — ‘ by excluding him from the establishment or subjecting him to any other detriment ’ ( section 17(c) ( ii ) ) . |