Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , Peachcake , if worries about the future are what 's been keeping him from showing his feelings for you and he 's as much in love with you as you appear to be with him , there 's to be no hasty wedding . |
| 2 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 3 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 4 | What might be watching him from the shadows ? |
| 5 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 6 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |
| 7 | Thailand 's leading conservationist , Sueb Nakhasatien , committed suicide in 1990 after complaining repeatedly that official corruption and a lack of resources were preventing him from acting effectively against wildlife poaching . |
| 8 | Tim Severin , a renowned adventurer and author , set off on May 13th on a ‘ China voyage ’ which is taking him from Hong Kong to California on a bamboo raft , and will produce a book of that name , published by Little , Brown , in October 1994 . |
| 9 | All that the glass is blocking him from meeting . |
| 10 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 11 | It is believed Stavridis told the judge in a behind-closed-doors grilling that the pilot was directing him from shore . |
| 12 | Then Izzie was calling him from behind the pageant . |
| 13 | She knew he had an early appointment with one of his lawyers and hoped that that was what was distancing him from her this morning . |
| 14 | So what was stopping him from going to her and telling her that she had no need to worry ? |
| 15 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |
| 16 | A man was watching him from no more than ten feet away , standing still but looking backwards , as if his attention had been drawn to Ross 's sudden appearance . |