Example sentences of "[to-vb] he from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 2 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 4 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 5 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 6 | Then they formed up around him to escort him from the arena . |
| 7 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 8 | Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius . |
| 9 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 10 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 11 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 12 | Then he closed the eyes of the boy with the broken neck , and placed a coat over him to keep him from the eyes of the students he would never get to know . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With him was his shadow , the poetic Zborowski , who , in brotherly friendship , wanted to protect him from the dangerous life of Nice . |
| 15 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 16 | Abo Mukhtar will adopt him , she says , wrapping him in a swaddling cloth to protect him from the dirt and dust . |
| 17 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 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 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 22 | " 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 . |
| 23 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 24 | They intended to kill him from the start … . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 26 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 27 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 28 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 29 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 30 | . Thought better by Jewry itself to withdraw him from the public gaze . |