Example sentences of "[verb] him from [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 2 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 3 | I do not wish to exclude him from such private and individual arenas , for to do so would be to fly in the face of Christian tradition from the fathers to C. S. Lewis and Cardinal Suenens ( 1982 ) in our own time . |
| 4 | The entry will be placed on the Proprietorship Register and will read : Note : The transfer to the proprietor contains a covenant by her with [ Husband ] to pay the monies secured by Charge No 1 and to indemnify him from all claims and demands in respect thereof . |
| 5 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
| 6 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 7 | He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections , and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that . |
| 8 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |
| 9 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 10 | But a court order bans him from any contact with the baby . |
| 11 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 12 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 13 | In ‘ Troilus and Criseyde ’ the narrator intrudes into his story ; he would like to shield Criseyde from her approaching adultery , but claims his role as ‘ translator ’ prevents him from this alteration of the text . |
| 14 | Donaldson read the form through and signed it ; only his silence was needed to keep him from all liability . |
| 15 | ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger . |
| 16 | ‘ Being informed by Lord Hastings of your situation and assured by him that my lord of Gloucester intends no harm to the king your son — but , on the contrary , desires only to protect him from those who would harm him — on learning of this an hour ago whilst in my bed at York House , I at once arose and came hither . ’ |
| 17 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 18 | He 's very conscious of the fact that he 's indebted to him , not just for rescuing him from those awful guardians but for getting him into Grafton Abbey and then arranging for him to work for Mr Harvey . |
| 19 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 20 | Those who had known him from that earlier period , however , were less than enthusiastic about his elevation . |
| 21 | The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells . |
| 22 | Here , Davie pays a handsome compliment to one fellow critic by implying that the best of his prose can stand comparison with an eighteenth-century writer 's ‘ sharp and exact delineations of what in one poet 's work distinguishes him from all others ’ . |
| 23 | For Marx , the peasant represented a conservative force because of his structural position in society , which separates him from those who might share his class interests . |
| 24 | And Ximena 's heart failed her , and she asked the Cid if peradventure God would deliver him from these enemies . |
| 25 | I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause . |
| 26 | Her stepfather , who had been there since he left home , drinking coffee and mineral water and reading the papers , turned his chair slightly , so that she would not be able to see his face , supposing that one adult male back would look much like another to those of Camille 's generation : his wife , he thought , would have recognized him from any angle . |
| 27 | He had n't admitted this for fear it would disqualify him from this part of the mission , and anyway he had thought he would feel safe behind the comforting protection of a pump-action . |
| 28 | Last year , Morrissey told the NME : ‘ I am incapable of racism ’ which , in turn , prompted me to exonerate him from any underlying racist intent in his work and to conclude , ‘ the liberal cycle appears to have been completed ’ . |
| 29 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 30 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |