Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephanie watched Daniel , wanting to protect him from Marcus . |
| 2 | In 798 those who had plotted against King Aethelred now came together again , probably with the intention of restoring Osbald , for Alcuin wrote to Osbald evidently seeking to deter him from renewed intervention in Northumbrian affairs . |
| 3 | They might be waiting — waiting to snatch him from salvation at the very last moment . |
| 4 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 5 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
| 6 | All that he could do would be to advise him strongly against resigning , and , as he had done when attempting to dissuade him from dissolving Parliament , back up his advice with a formal protest , allowing Baldwin to tell his colleagues that the King objected to the course he was taking . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've met your match there , darling , ’ he said as Kelly pushed and shoved the colt along , tying to keep him from stopping altogether . |
| 8 | A hidden mechanism activates , ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge . |
| 9 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 10 | ‘ A wild rider , a woman , was reaching to tug him from the pyre . |
| 11 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 12 | I was trying to discourage him from coming , but he seemed determined to make the flight . ’ |
| 13 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
| 14 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 15 | Why , otherwise would the EC investigating lawyer be bombarded with phone calls all trying to dissuade him from a site visit ? |
| 16 | MARK MOULAND last night paid tribute to Welsh team-mate Ian Woosnam for helping to rescue him from the golfing scrap heap . |