Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred , the eldest son , was never interested in the business , his homosexuality and leaning towards the arts alienating him from his conservative father . |
| 2 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 3 | The latest sighting of Hamilton-Jones at the Kelvin Hall prompted Ward to report yesterday that senior officials would meet quickly to discuss methods to prevent him from competing . |
| 4 | The urge to preserve these rural communities led him from examination of dying primitive societies to sympathy with developing regionalism as a political force to preserve cultural values under threat . |
| 5 | Young 's lifetime passion for the large molluscs led him from the squid to the octopus . |
| 6 | It should be remembered that there are other provisions which could in certain circumstances prevent him from doing so ( see Chapter 5 above ) . |
| 7 | Towards the end of his life , he had to be surrounded by bodyguards to protect him from germs and from contact with reality . |
| 8 | His parents removed him from Wellington College in 1891 , following a diphtheria epidemic , to a school in Bruges , whence too he was removed after a homosexual scandal . |
| 9 | Yet his curriculum vitae would be very much stronger if there were not that one-metre gap between the rival lines to stop him from imposing his physical presence on his opposite number in quite the same way as he did to such crucial effect upon Steve Cuttler in the 1989 series in Australia . |
| 10 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 11 | It is a pity that Fforde 's determination to present the Conservative party as decided individualists prevented him from exploring the confusion in the Conservative ranks indicated by his evidence . |
| 12 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |
| 13 | One possibility is that he had already begun to campaign in western Saxon territory and that additional troops joined him from his supporters there . |
| 14 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 15 | But , if the refusal or the conditions prevent him from obtaining ‘ reasonably beneficial use ’ of the land , he can serve a purchase notice . |
| 16 | Tithonus directly begs the Gods to release him from their grip and let him die . |
| 17 | Do nt know about Strandli , but he has been on loan to Start ( Norway 1st Div side — where leeds bought him from ) . |
| 18 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 19 | The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells . |
| 20 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 21 | He claimed that his Socialist opponents had used corruption allegations to hound him from office , and that fellow right-wing politicians in Paris had abandoned him ( many of Médecin 's close political friends had been alienated by his decision in 1989 to leave the Gaullist Rally for the Republic and join the far right National Centre of Independents and Peasants ) . |
| 22 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 23 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 24 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 25 | In Leetham ( Henry ) & Sons Ltd v Johnstone-White [ 1907 ] 1 Ch 322 Farwell LJ commented : … a man whose business is a corn miller 's business , and who requires to protect that , can not , if he has also a furniture business , require the covenantee who enter into his service as an employee in the corn business to enter into covenants restricting him from entering into competition with him in the furniture business also , because it is not required for the protection of the corn business in which the man is employed , however much it may be beneficial to the individual person , the owner both of the corn business and of the furniture business . |
| 26 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 27 | When Dustin heard news of the ensuing blaze , he rushed back to the scene , and was able to push through the gaping crowds to pull three of his modern paintings and a Tiffany lampshade from the smoke-filled Federal-style building , before the police prevented him from re-entering the house . |
| 28 | However , his current commitments prevent him from giving time to the forum . |
| 29 | Champ had pined for his master since police took him from his old home . |
| 30 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |