Example sentences of "[prep] him from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 2 | He put a hand to his cheek and saw Angie 's reflected image float up and drift towards him from the garden . |
| 3 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 4 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 5 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 6 | Because you 've been crackers about Christopher , in love with him from the cradle . |
| 7 | He fumbled for his skeleton keys and realised that he had not brought them with him from the car . |
| 8 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 9 | Viktor had sketched the green enamel and the twinkling diamonds in the tattered book he 'd taken with him from the charnel house that had been his home . |
| 10 | He took his typescript with him from the compartment for fear of its vanishing . |
| 11 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 12 | Immediately the anger and irritation he had brought with him from the house erupted in a howl of anger . |
| 13 | But he had brought back with him from the pilgrimage no feeling of achievement or merit , only a sense of failure with which he was already too familiar . |
| 14 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 15 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 16 | ‘ Now I want to share with him from the earliest moments the joy , the vindication , the victory after all that we have gone through together . ’ |
| 17 | The hard eyes still bored into him from the gloom of the hall , but the expression of hostility began a slow metamorphosis into one of malevolent interest . |
| 18 | One who had faith in him from the start was Dulcie Howes . |
| 19 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 20 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 21 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 22 | But this universal explorer continues his work at home , plumbing the world about him from the astronomically large to the microscopically small . |
| 23 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 24 | In 1696 Lowther of Lowther , tired of contesting elections , employed his cousin to seek a viscountcy for him from the king . |
| 25 | I glanced at my watch , found I had forgotten to adjust it and read the time for him from the digital clock at the base of the instrument panel . |
| 26 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 27 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 28 | He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car . |
| 29 | The boy walked beside him from the Post Office to Lipton 's , talking about the secret that was safe between them , pursuing him into the shop itself . |
| 30 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |