Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 2 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 3 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 4 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 5 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 6 | Daemons tried to turn him from his path . |
| 7 | Who were you in your arrogance to try to save him from his wish ? |
| 8 | Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially . |
| 9 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 10 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 11 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
| 12 | Schlesinger 's agent tried to dissuade him from taking it on , advising him rather to direct Jack Lemmon in The April Fools . |
| 13 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 14 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 15 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
| 16 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 17 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 18 | ‘ His mother tried to prevent him from having access to the phone but even that did n't stop him . |
| 19 | Cantona 's nomadic journey though English football began last January , when Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis tried to sign him from Nimes . |
| 20 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 21 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 22 | On Jan. 13 Azerbaijani anger boiled over into an anti-Armenian pogrom in Baku , when some 70,000 people at a rally in the city centre were told that an Armenian resident of the city had attacked two Azerbaijanis with an axe , killing one of them , when they came to evict him from his flat . |
| 23 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 24 | The activity seemed to rouse him from his stupor . |
| 25 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 26 | Stephanie watched Daniel , wanting to protect him from Marcus . |
| 27 | And in his case , too , God intervened to save him from death . |
| 28 | In 798 those who had plotted against King Aethelred now came together again , probably with the intention of restoring Osbald , for Alcuin wrote to Osbald evidently seeking to deter him from renewed intervention in Northumbrian affairs . |
| 29 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 30 | Where the defendant has innocently made a substantial investment on the basis of information innocently acquired it is most unlikely that an injunction would be granted to restrain him from making use of that information ( although the fact that an injunction might drive the defendant into liquidation is not relevant if the tests in American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon [ 1975 ] AC 396 have been satisfied ; per May LJ in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 ) . |