Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 2 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 3 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 4 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 5 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 6 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 7 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 8 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 9 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 10 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 11 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 12 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 13 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 14 | The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel . |
| 15 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 17 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 18 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 19 | The boy walked beside him from the Post Office to Lipton 's , talking about the secret that was safe between them , pursuing him into the shop itself . |
| 20 | Cowards — preferring to spy on him from the shadows and whisper lies . |
| 21 | He put a hand to his cheek and saw Angie 's reflected image float up and drift towards him from the garden . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I want to share with him from the earliest moments the joy , the vindication , the victory after all that we have gone through together . ’ |
| 23 | Immediately the anger and irritation he had brought with him from the house erupted in a howl of anger . |
| 24 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 25 | He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path . |
| 26 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 27 | The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture . |
| 28 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 29 | By this time , she was too weak from hunger and thirst to call to him from the window . |
| 30 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |