Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] him 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 4 | And while the Senate President was away in Berlin , Forster and his cronies concocted a simple plan to remove him from office . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cantril saw this young man as hoping for cosmic disaster to free him from worries . |
| 8 | ‘ Marriage can succeed for an artist only where there is enough money to save him from taking on uncongenial work and a wife who is intelligent enough to understand and respect the working of the unfriendly cycle of the creative imagination . |
| 9 | It is likely that Amin 's known opposition to the idea of establishing Soviet military bases on Afghan soil influenced the Soviet decision to remove him from power . |
| 10 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 11 | This gave Conner the chance , when the breeze was light , to build up a sufficient cushion to protect him from Kanza 's better moderate air speed as the sea breeze grew . |
| 12 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |