Example sentences of "[verb] him from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |
| 32 | As , her spine ramrod-straight , Luce accompanied him from the lived-in part of the palazzo , past grand salons and vaulted galleries , down to the basement regions thoughts wheeled and settled in her mind like swallows on a telegraph wire . |
| 33 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 34 | Here he learnt that the pope would not release him from the archbishopric , but wished him to expound the Latin doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit at a meeting with representatives of the Greek Church at Bari in October . |
| 35 | When Sir Geoffrey Howe last summer tried insisting that she name a date for next year she refused and later sacked him from the Foreign Office . |
| 36 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 37 | We call him ‘ gangling Chang ’ to distinguish him from the other Changs , because he is tall , thin , loose-limbed , and is ready to laugh about anything , although it appears he has some family problems in that his wife is away and his baby son is ill . |