Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] he from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
| 2 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 3 | But of course I had to remove him from the field . ’ |
| 4 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 5 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 6 | ‘ It is just a pity Gary chose to go to QPR when I wanted to buy him from Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 7 | Mrs Palmer-Radford 's other son , Oliver , aged six , only discovered what had happened after she failed to collect him from his Catholic prep-school , it emerged yesterday . |
| 8 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
| 9 | She lingered over her task , and it was an age before she 'd covered him from head to toe : finishing her work with nimble fingers on his risen member . |
| 10 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 11 | She 'd distrusted him from afar , for some time , even before leaving London , before ever setting eyes on him . |
| 12 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 13 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 14 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 15 | She greeted him with pleasure , for she had liked him from the start . |
| 16 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 17 | Yes , he was every bit as good looking as she had thought he was when she had glimpsed him from the catwalk . |
| 18 | You had been swilling food into your guts and making the small talk of camp survival , and you had lost him from your memory … |
| 19 | Erm again i er the old story , we ca n't get speakers on a Monday and better luck in last year this year , sorry er I was able to get Danny but there again he came very expensive erm but we brought , we had to bring him from Lancaster so er , you ca n't expect him to come for nothing . |
| 20 | We sat facing him from the customer 's end of a leather-topped desk . |
| 21 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 22 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 23 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 24 | On Jan. 13 Azerbaijani anger boiled over into an anti-Armenian pogrom in Baku , when some 70,000 people at a rally in the city centre were told that an Armenian resident of the city had attacked two Azerbaijanis with an axe , killing one of them , when they came to evict him from his flat . |
| 25 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 26 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When they had taken him from the hospital block with his possessions and spare clothes in a cloth sack he had smiled and shaken hands and believed that the flight was close , Berlin he had thought it would be . |
| 29 | In Bamburgh castle , where they had carried him from Wooler as soon as he was fit to be moved , the earl of Douglas took his ease in a very light and illustrious captivity . |
| 30 | They intended to kill him from the start … . ’ |