Example sentences of "[verb] him from the [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 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With him was his shadow , the poetic Zborowski , who , in brotherly friendship , wanted to protect him from the dangerous life of Nice . |
| 17 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 18 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 19 | But then the sound of different voices came to his ears , and Carolyn called him from the french windows . |
| 20 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 21 | She had flattered his self-esteem , protected him from the minor irritations of life , preserved his privacy with maternal pugnacity , had ensured , with infinite tact , that he knew all he needed to know about what was going on in his Laboratory . |
| 22 | Paul 's opponents found it easier to agree in synod on his unworthiness for office than to eject him from the episcopal residence . |
| 23 | Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox . |
| 24 | But Ranulf was here and while Corbett bathed and changed his clothing , he wondered how Ranulf could protect him from the secret assassins now stalking him . |
| 25 | For men such as Sidonius Apollinaris ( c. 431– c. 480 ) , the Gallo-Roman aristocrat who became bishop of Clermont , saw his inherited traditional culture as an integral part of his Roman Christianity , distancing him from the barbarian heretic . |
| 26 | Johnson , contradicting him , took him from the particular belief to the general likelihood : from the possibility of a singular holy place to the generic derivation from water : ‘ Had it been an accidental name , the similarity between it and Anaitis might have had something in it ; but it turns out to be a mere physiological name . ’ |
| 27 | . Thought better by Jewry itself to withdraw him from the public gaze . |
| 28 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |
| 29 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 30 | SOUTHAMPTON manager Ian Branfoot substituted hardman Terry Hurlock to save him from the red card . |