Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] him from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 2 | She had n't recognised him from the back , and now she stared at him in surprise . |
| 3 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 4 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 5 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |