Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] from his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barrister , too , may find that such facts are missing from his brief , and have to extract them from his instructing solicitor in conference . |
| 2 | Walter Carew had placed the painting of himself further down , dissociating himself from his weaker , lecherous , spendthrift brother . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear Gwendolen , ’ he cut in impatiently , disengaging her from his new blazer . |
| 4 | He did n't let memory divert him from his present pleasure , but found his rhythm ; long , slow strokes . |
| 5 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 6 | Sweat dewed her lashes as she unbuttoned his white shirt , pushing it from his broad shoulders , running her hands over his flesh , pulling him closer , her mouth as hungry as his . |
| 7 | Our system of criminal justice demands that the government seeking to punish an individual produce the evidence by its own independent labours , rather than by the cruel , simple expedient of compelling it from his own mouth . |
| 8 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 9 | He enclosed a number of copies of testimonials and requested one from his illustrious patron . |
| 10 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 11 | I thought it probable the police were right , he had sought revenge against Imogen Surkov for separating him from his nice third wife , Vera , and their son . |
| 12 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
| 13 | She had to hear it from his own lips , even if it meant that part of her died . |
| 14 | But Coleridge soon discovered the shortcomings of Clevedon , and especially the inconvenient distance separating it from his literary friends in Bristol , and from the indispensable Bristol City Library . |
| 15 | Jean Alesi is said to be trying to disentangle himself from his 1993 Ferrari contract in order to make himself available to Williams . |
| 16 | All manner of villain tries to tempt him , divert him , or separate him from his small savings . |
| 17 | But Fogerty 's Hollywood dreams will not deter him from his other ambitions — such as becoming a League international just like his dad Terry . |
| 18 | Fred , the eldest son , was never interested in the business , his homosexuality and leaning towards the arts alienating him from his conservative father . |
| 19 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 20 | The categorization of individuals by position in the hierarchy and group membership made it impossible for an individual to divorce himself from his social role . |
| 21 | It was almost as though he was trying to erect walls around his heart to protect himself from his softer feelings . |
| 22 | and pluck him from his halcyon pied-a-terre ? |
| 23 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 24 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
| 25 | German idealism was born out of a rejection of British empiricism : Immanuel Kant famously declared that it was David Hume who had woken him from his dogmatic slumbers . |
| 26 | ‘ Strum Guard ’ is a term used solely by Joe Strummer to describe the bandana taped around his right hand to protect it from his own vigorous guitar-flailing . |
| 27 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 28 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 29 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 30 | To distance himself from his domestic woes it can be expected Gooch will drive himself and his players even harder than usual in training the next few days . |