Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 2 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 4 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 5 | Daemons tried to turn him from his path . |
| 6 | Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially . |
| 7 | In 1657 Crofton tried to bar him from the pulpit , as a heretic and troublemaker . |
| 8 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 9 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
| 10 | Schlesinger 's agent tried to dissuade him from taking it on , advising him rather to direct Jack Lemmon in The April Fools . |
| 11 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 12 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 13 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 14 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 15 | ‘ His mother tried to prevent him from having access to the phone but even that did n't stop him . |
| 16 | Cantona 's nomadic journey though English football began last January , when Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis tried to sign him from Nimes . |
| 17 | On Jan. 13 Azerbaijani anger boiled over into an anti-Armenian pogrom in Baku , when some 70,000 people at a rally in the city centre were told that an Armenian resident of the city had attacked two Azerbaijanis with an axe , killing one of them , when they came to evict him from his flat . |
| 18 | The activity seemed to rouse him from his stupor . |
| 19 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 20 | And in his case , too , God intervened to save him from death . |
| 21 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 22 | The storms that threatened to pluck him from the summit where he stood barely rippled the grey waters of the lakes that were strung like pearls along the centre of the grassland far below . |
| 23 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 24 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 25 | Then Noah got up and started to kick him from behind . |
| 26 | The Great Britain forward , sent off for tripping Mike Ford in Saturday 's Regal Trophy defeat by Castleford , presented video evidence to yesterday 's Rugby League disciplinary committee , but it failed to save him from a two-match ban . |
| 27 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 28 | Only this managed to save him from the bullying which would otherwise visit a boy who practically lived within the works of Oscar Wilde . |
| 29 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |
| 30 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |