Example sentences of "[verb] him from his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't let memory divert him from his present pleasure , but found his rhythm ; long , slow strokes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
| 6 | All manner of villain tries to tempt him , divert him , or separate him from his small savings . |
| 7 | But Fogerty 's Hollywood dreams will not deter him from his other ambitions — such as becoming a League international just like his dad Terry . |
| 8 | Fred , the eldest son , was never interested in the business , his homosexuality and leaning towards the arts alienating him from his conservative father . |
| 9 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 10 | and pluck him from his halcyon pied-a-terre ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 15 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Watch the birdie PRESIDENT Mitterrand did not allow last week 's premiership crisis to deflect him from his usual Monday morning pastime : playing golf at St Cloud , near Paris . |
| 16 | Champ had pined for his master since police took him from his old home . |
| 17 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 18 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 19 | Mrs Palmer-Radford 's other son , Oliver , aged six , only discovered what had happened after she failed to collect him from his Catholic prep-school , it emerged yesterday . |
| 20 | Maxham was the first to appear ; Celia recognized him from his previous visits to the office . |
| 21 | What had roused him from his half-drunken sleep ; a scream , the sound of a quarrel , a falling body ? |
| 22 | His call was traced and half an hour later police rescued him from his traumatic experience . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh Lord , look down upon this sinful child in his wickedness and lead him from his evil ways into righteousness If he is tempted again , remind him of the pains of Thy Hell , the torment and burning , so that he may quiver in his wretched flesh and repent in his immortal soul … |