Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] he from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 2 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 3 | If the failed attempt to oust him from Wadham in 1654 was the work of stricter puritans who suspected him of reducing Christianity to morality , so in the 1660s his ‘ club for comprehension ’ evoked the censure of high churchmen . |
| 4 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 5 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 6 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 7 | His chart of appearances shows that he made full appearances for two seasons after joining us and only a broken collar-bone prevented him from making an even more impressive contribution towards our promotion to Division One in 1969–70 . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , on becoming prime minister after Craigavon 's death in 1940 , Andrews was also at sea , his loyalty to old colleagues preventing him from bringing in new men . |
| 9 | The urge to preserve these rural communities led him from examination of dying primitive societies to sympathy with developing regionalism as a political force to preserve cultural values under threat . |
| 10 | And while the Senate President was away in Berlin , Forster and his cronies concocted a simple plan to remove him from office . |
| 11 | One possibility is that he had already begun to campaign in western Saxon territory and that additional troops joined him from his supporters there . |
| 12 | If you take that kind of view , then of course Russell 's persistent emotionality and his characterization of the world in these personal terms is a failure , erm something that he was never able to overcome , something for all his passionate moral convictions prevented him from really seeing himself at one with other people . |
| 13 | The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells . |
| 14 | Billy was awarded a Benefit on Wednesday 15 April 1931 against the Combined Universities , but a knock in the League match on the previous Saturday prevented him from playing — so he appeared as linesman instead ! |
| 15 | Young 's lifetime passion for the large molluscs led him from the squid to the octopus . |
| 16 | On another occasion he reflected that only hard work saved him from ‘ that melancholic staring into the abyss ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger . |
| 18 | Master of his own hardware universe , pedals and effects spread before him like an airline pilot 's bewildering cockpit or the useless junk at some bum 's feet on a New York sidewalk , this little lot transforms him from frizzy-head potato face misery into a full-blown magician . |
| 19 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 20 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 21 | Sir Fulke 's honesty in admitting he walked on the frozen moat saved him from suspicion . |
| 22 | Yet his curriculum vitae would be very much stronger if there were not that one-metre gap between the rival lines to stop him from imposing his physical presence on his opposite number in quite the same way as he did to such crucial effect upon Steve Cuttler in the 1989 series in Australia . |
| 23 | He managed to catch Angus a half-decent clip across the right ear , but the sinister Campbell grabbed him from behind and clung to his neck . |
| 24 | Whether I pay or go free , whatever the cost , I will not let it be said I killed a decent man to keep him from accusing me . |
| 25 | They found that he was not good in processions , for the curious roll prevented him from keeping ranks like the others . |
| 26 | However , his current commitments prevent him from giving time to the forum . |
| 27 | Cantril saw this young man as hoping for cosmic disaster to free him from worries . |
| 28 | Tools with extra long handles save him from having to bend over too far , which might undermine his balance . |
| 29 | A stoic quality keeps him from talking about the problem , which is silly ; even Nicklaus discusses his back , made ancient by millions of swings and uneven leg lengths . |
| 30 | Then a heavy body struck him from behind and knocked him down , the fetid breath on his cheek . |