Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he from " 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 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 3 | This was a puzzlement , and he was glad he had the soothing spectacle of Midnight Mass to distract him from it . |
| 4 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 5 | Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon . |
| 6 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 7 | Midge 's total lack of emotion prevented him from sharing his own grief with her and he found that unbearable . |
| 8 | Mr Reynolds was also shown the ward day-room and introduced to other patients to help him settle down , but his anxiety about his condition prevented him from really relaxing . |
| 9 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 10 | Certified accountant Tony Berry , former chairman and chief executive of the Blue Arrow employment agency and one time darling of the City , faces action by the Department of Trade and Industry to disqualify him from acting as a company director , following publication of a highly critical DTI inspectors ' report into Blue Arrow 's management . |
| 11 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 12 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 13 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 14 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 15 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 16 | The project of a road connecting the Cariboo gold-fields to the coast occupied him from 1862 . |
| 17 | Only the fact that he rolled on to his side saved him from being brained . |
| 18 | If the failed attempt to oust him from Wadham in 1654 was the work of stricter puritans who suspected him of reducing Christianity to morality , so in the 1660s his ‘ club for comprehension ’ evoked the censure of high churchmen . |
| 19 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 20 | Maj.-Gen Bantu Holomisa , the leader of the ruling Military Council in the nominally independent Transkei homeland ( whose independence was not internationally recognized ) , accused South Africa of being behind an attempt to remove him from power on Nov. 22 . |
| 21 | So the film company organized a car to take him from Reading to Pangbourne . |
| 22 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 23 | On April 2 Anania Bartolomeu , a founder member of a study group for the renovation of the Orthodox Church , had reportedly visited Teoctist in an attempt to dissuade him from returning . |
| 24 | She made no attempt to prevent him from taking her into his arms , gave no sign that she knew of his presence . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again . |
| 27 | In the event , Tyndale 's unorthodox beliefs and his lack of support for the annulment prevented him from having any direct impact on royal policy . |
| 28 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 29 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 30 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |