Example sentences of "[prep] him from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hanns Ebensten , who met John when he was about fourteen and quickly became his best friend , first heard of him from one of John 's fellow pupils , Inge May , who with her mother was a lodger at the Ebensten home ( they were all German refugees ) . |
| 2 | All she could see of him from this angle was that he was a very large man , broad as well as tall — so tall that he had to bend his head over his task . |
| 3 | Dunlop elected to punch a cross from Steve Staunton , but succeeded only in presenting the ball to Ronnie Whelan , who drilled it back past him from 18 yards . |
| 4 | On that occasion Themistokles carried his view ; but ( Plutarch says ) the Spartans took against him from that moment , preferring to advance Kimon instead . |
| 5 | While initially suspicious of Benjamin Disraeli , he recognized his talents and served loyally under him from 1849 . |
| 6 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 7 | At the thirteenth count , 16 more transferred from the surplus of Brady ( FF ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from eleven other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S and McA . |
| 8 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
| 9 | At the eleventh count , 839 more transferred from Smith ( WP ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from nine other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M and R. |
| 10 | That has provoked more paperwork , or at least strongly supportive letters to him from complete strangers in higher education , schools and the health service . |
| 11 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 12 | At the fourteenth count , 876 more transferred from Doyle ( FG ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA and B. |
| 13 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 14 | Waksman records that the great American pharmaceutical firm of Merck established a fellowship in his department in 1938 for the study of industrial fermentation processes , and made grants to him from 1939 onwards for research into antibiotics . |
| 15 | At the eighth count he received 42 more , transferred from Egan ( PG ) , eliminated , who had had voted transferred to him from five other candidates , F , H , B , Cr and O'S . |
| 16 | At the sixth , 64 more transferred from Crilly ( WP ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from four other candidates , F , Cl , H and B. |
| 17 | He looked and saw the clergyman 's two children , known to him from past association . |
| 18 | At the tenth count , 104 more transferred from Ryan ( FF ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from seven other candidates . |
| 19 | Former Northern Telecom Ltd chief and alumnus of Burroughs Corp , Unisys Corp and IBM Corp itself , Paul Stern is now firm favourite in the betting on the next chief executive of IBM after the Wall Street Journal disclosed that there are strong objections to him from some influential IBM executives — if he 's got those people against him , he must be the right man for the job . |
| 20 | Balfour came to stay at Petworth between the wars and I read a letter to him from another guest saying that she was sure that what they would both remember most about the visit was the intense cold of the house . |
| 21 | The charter S 950 is a grant to him from 1018 , and so is S 952 , which alleges that Cnut gave Christ Church freedom , and may be connected with the report ( S 985 ) that he confirmed their liberties by placing their charters on the altar . |
| 22 | At the fifth , 19 more transferred from Brennan ( Ind ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from three other candidates , F , Cl and H. |
| 23 | At the seventh , 72 more transferred from O'Snodaigh ( SF ) , who had had votes transferred to him from three other candidates , Cl , B and Cr . |
| 24 | For as if the attacks on him from Labour and Liberal Democrats were not enough . |
| 25 | Six of them , ringing him round , closing in on him from all sides . |
| 26 | And red-faced Brucie , brought back to steady the ship , blundered for the second goal , racing to the edge of his area to punch straight to Earle who sent a superbly-judged lob back over him from 25 yards . |
| 27 | Politicians are slinging arrows at him from all sides . |
| 28 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 29 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 30 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |