Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Towards the end of his life , he had to be surrounded by bodyguards to protect him from germs and from contact with reality . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tithonus directly begs the Gods to release him from their grip and let him die . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A brief outline of the events is that the editor of a major medical journal ( a ) republished a previously published paper solely in order to attack it in an editorial ; ( b ) did this without the authors ' permission , while stating the opposite ; ( c ) initially refused to allow the original authors the right to reply in his editorial criticism ; ( d ) published a further editorial attack when ( a year later ) he published an edited version of the authors ' response ; ( d ) refused to publish any other correspondence about the editorial attacks ; and ( f ) gave another editor a dishonest account of events to dissuade him from publishing our account of the affair . |