Example sentences of "[verb] he from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground .
2 When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning .
3 But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking .
4 But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking .
5 It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary .
6 It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook .
7 If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side .
8 If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness .
9 DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap .
10 It was gone in a trice , saving him from a terrible thrashing or many long hours standing in disgrace .
11 The burning midday sun roused him from a feverish sleep .
12 He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life .
13 Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism .
14 She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't !
15 Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make .
16 The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop .
17 Francie paid him from a thick but grimy roll of notes .
18 I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death .
19 Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius .
20 She moved house and with the cooperation of the new local head teacher changed Tom 's mainstream school , and withdrew him from the off-site unit .
21 The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write .
22 Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others .
23 ‘ I remember him from a long time ago .
24 The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead .
25 It had to be an art that did not separate him from the uncultured poor but was founded in them , gathering them to him in a home of art they could all share , a home that sheltered and consoled ; a warm place .
26 The first tug had awoken him from a complacent slumber , the second had brought him to his feet .
27 Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time .
28 Beccaria 's unwillingness to allow individual differences — whether in terms of personal characteristics or socio-economic position — to enter into considerations of punishment , also distanced him from the positivist version of human manipulability .
29 His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt .
30 With him was his shadow , the poetic Zborowski , who , in brotherly friendship , wanted to protect him from the dangerous life of Nice .
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