Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 2 | Only his skin , as I inspected him from fairly close quarters , was pallid and blotchy . |
| 3 | ‘ I phoned him from the training ground yesterday and had a row with him because it was embarrassing for Barnet . |
| 4 | ‘ I recognised him from Seville , yes . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Unless someone dropped him from a helicopter , ’ he said . |
| 6 | If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was . |
| 7 | I released him from the tomb . |
| 8 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 9 | I collected him from the airport and he scarcely drew breath ! |
| 10 | I ordered him from a kennel in Norfolk , arranging a price and delivery by train . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 13 | Rik Mayall 's name was all it took to persuade Ate de Jong to direct the film : ‘ I knew him from his work in THE YOUNG ONES . |
| 14 | No , I knew him from the school . |
| 15 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 16 | I saw him from my window — |
| 17 | We went to school together , I saved him from a beating and he rescued me from a hanging , twice ; once in Ipswich and then again at Montfaucon , that great forest of gibbets which stands near the Porte St Denis in Paris . |
| 18 | Someone saved him from a blade he had not seen , and he killed the man who wielded it and began to fight his way back the way he had come , towards Siward , still calling orders . |
| 19 | In the confusion , someone jumped him from behind , a man he later identified as ‘ a Jewish Communist ’ . |
| 20 | When Nigel came back he lay down on his stomach and held out a big stick which the Mayor clutched and Otley and I pushed him from the back until we got him out none the worse for his adventure . |
| 21 | I recognized him from the wedding photograph old Ma Scamp had flashed in front of me . |
| 22 | That hard work has paid dividends for Washington , who has already scored notable career wins over Connors , Chang , Cherkasov , Wheaton and Lendl , and who claimed his first ever senior title in Memphis in February , a win which moved him from 38 to 23 on the IBM/ATP Computer , his highest ever showing . |
| 23 | The only thing which stopped him from making an outright proposal of marriage was the knowledge that he had no security to offer whatsoever . |
| 24 | We were later told about Piggy 's asthma which stopped him from doing many physical things like swimming and running . |
| 25 | His eyesight was below par which disqualified him from being a pilot — and annoyed him a lot — but he passed out as a navigator . |
| 26 | Lowe continued his career until 1871 when he fell victim to a pulmonary disease which prevented him from joining the services for the deaf at the new St. Saviour 's Church . |
| 27 | Born into a provincial Liberal family in 1858 , Hobson developed unorthodox views which prevented him from securing an academic career in his chosen field of economics . |
| 28 | In Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 the Court of Appeal held that a restraint on a medical assistant to a partnership which prevented him from practising " in any department of medicine , surgery or midwifery ( or accepting ) any professional appointment " was unreasonable because it covered , inter alia , practice as a consultant or medical officer of health . |
| 29 | What was worrying him more , he said , was the language barrier which prevented him from linking up with his Japanese teammates . |
| 30 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |