Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him from [art] " 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 | Teal saw torch beams bobbing towards him from a side corridor and grabbed Bernice 's arm . |
| 3 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 4 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 7 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 8 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 9 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He is not a natural extrovert ; leadership was thrust on him from a very early age . |
| 14 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ His father pointed them out to him often enough and he knew that things would drop on him from a great height if he put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was standing back to admire the conflagration when the full weight of its rightful resident landed on him from a bough above , where it had been watching . |
| 25 | Cowards — preferring to spy on him from the shadows and whisper lies . |
| 26 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 27 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |
| 28 | He put a hand to his cheek and saw Angie 's reflected image float up and drift towards him from the garden . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Immediately the anger and irritation he had brought with him from the house erupted in a howl of anger . |