Example sentences of "[verb] from him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt at rest , the dark weight of tension lifted from him by the woman . |
| 2 | All AE 's immediately turned to stare at one of their number a poker-faced young man , who described any client who would n't buy from him as a " cunt " even scribbling comments to that effect on the client record cards . |
| 3 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 4 | He watched her dab her cheeks , then wipe her eyes , his heart torn from him by the tiny shudder she gave . |
| 5 | Mr. Back Q.C. , for the appellant , contended that if Mr. Occhi consented to the appellant taking the £6 , he consented to the property in the money passing from him to the appellant and that the appellant had not , therefore , appropriated property belonging to another . |
| 6 | Pleas for understanding began to pour from him in a stream . |
| 7 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 8 | It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist , and merely adopted from him by the emperor . |
| 9 | In two modern cases , however , it has been held that so long as the donor has done all he needs to do , the beneficial interest passes from him to the donee . |
| 10 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
| 11 | A recipe for it or a description of this beguiling dish of peppers , onions , tomatoes and eggs appears in every one of his books , even down to the booklet commissioned from him by the Romary biscuit firm and which sold for sixpence . |
| 12 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 13 | As Denton has shown , Winchelsey had used Clericis Laicos tactically to keep the king at bay while evading the full implications of that bull — that the pope alone could give consent ; Edward spent the last years of his reign dexterously reversing this and nullifying the commitments which appeared to have been extracted from him by the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 . |
| 14 | He was standing behind her now , and she could feel the energy emanating from him like a tangible force . |
| 15 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 16 | If he had not actually gone into the room he would not have seen Gina ; she was standing against one of the bookcases hidden from him by the open door . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I have not heard from him for a month now . ’ |
| 18 | A purchaser of land might well be uneasy if he knew that , even if he had no notice of a trust , the land could be recovered from him by a trustee . |
| 19 | Come on , now — ’ He had no need to say more because Cameron had risen to his feet in the greying light and a song was coming from him in a steady flow of sound and a hard gravelly voice that resonated like a pipe . |
| 20 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 21 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 22 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 23 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |
| 24 | Caroline looked from him to the wall . |
| 25 | Her face is shaded from him in the failing light . |
| 26 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 27 | She noticed the way his chest heaved , the rivers of desire flowing from him across the room to burn her body with unbearable heat . |
| 28 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 29 | Again , on the face of the statute , I can not see any reason why in this case the constable should do more than tell the driver the reason under section 7(3) why breath specimens can not be taken or used ; tell him that in these circumstances he is required to give a specimen of blood or urine but that it is for the constable to decide which ; warn him that a failure to provide the specimen required may render him liable to prosecution ; and then , if the constable decides to require blood , ask the driver if there are any reasons why a specimen can not or should not be taken from him by a doctor . |
| 30 | His goodwill with those customers belonged to him and can not reasonably be taken from him by a covenant of this kind . |