Example sentences of "[prep] him from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had heard of him from his grandfather . |
| 2 | For years , I , too , have been hounded by a strange man and am currently following Bonham Carter 's example by marking out a map excluding him from my life . |
| 3 | He had condemned her and the warmth she had sensed in him from their first meeting had all gone . |
| 4 | Mr Beckenham looked down upon him from his superior height and handed to him the lady 's portmanteau . |
| 5 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 6 | Again Fabia was reminded how this man must really think she would go behind his back to get information about him from his secretary , and her heart settled to an angry beat . |
| 7 | He had tried to explain things to him from my point of view … . |
| 8 | Is the Minister aware that I welcome both advances which have been made , but it will be obvious to him from my correspondence with the Department that some bullying still goes on . |
| 9 | The court must see , from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called to give that there is reasonable ground to apprehend danger to him from his answer . |
| 10 | Land he gave to St Augustine 's , Canterbury , in 689 , which had come to him from his parents , had been confirmed in his possession by King Athelred ( CS 73 : S 12 ) . |
| 11 | An applicant will not be entitled to legal aid if representation is available to him from his Trade Union . |
| 12 | Clauses forbidding assignment of the contract do not however prevent a seller from factoring or otherwise assigning the debts due to him from his buyer as a result of his performance of the contract . |
| 13 | If there was anything here that came to him from his father , it could be nowhere but in the church , and he had never yet been allowed past the gate-towers , and could not believe in any such concession now . |
| 14 | And Bella laughed , swiping out at him from her wheelchair . |
| 15 | ‘ So so , ’ said Julia , looking up at him from her pillows and smiling at the affection and the anxiety in his face . |
| 16 | Warren Caswell turned sharply to find old Lady Usk 's eyes staring up at him from her diminutive height . |
| 17 | His ancestors stared at him from their portraits on the wall . |
| 18 | Staring at him from its face was Rock Hardy , the hero of his favourite comic-strip . |
| 19 | He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glass cubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch . |
| 20 | Who had gazed up at him from his adolescent girlie mags . |
| 21 | The man looked down at him from his perch in a beech-tree above the track , and laughed . |
| 22 | William of Malmesbury is our source for the tale of the witch of Berkeley who served the Devil as a sorceress and who was carried off by him from her tomb in spite of the efforts of her family and the priest . |