Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 2 | Young 's lifetime passion for the large molluscs led him from the squid to the octopus . |
| 3 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 4 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 5 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 6 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 7 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 8 | On election , however , his refusal as a Congregationalist to take the sacraments debarred him from the House of Commons and caused his removal from the aldermanic bench under the Corporation Act . |