Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Alexander worked out a technique that not only freed him from the tendency which was at the bottom of his vocal troubles , but also cured his asthma from which he had suffered from birth . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Lawyer C had conveyed his house in the teeth of a re-possession order from a loan company , and generally extricated him from the debts of his own dissolved partnership . |
| 4 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 5 | BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators . |
| 6 | At an official reception the captain of the ship pointedly ignored Sean Lester , the League of Nations High Commissioner , and later excluded him from the list of official courtesy visits . |
| 7 | Man , by contrast , has the potential to make this ability subject to conscious control , and it is this very difference which clearly divides him from the animal world . |
| 8 | By embracing rather than plundering elements of jazz , soul and funk , Jamiroquai 's debut single on Acid Jazz , ‘ When You Gon na Learn ’ , served as the perfect foretaste to his future work and in the process instantly distanced him from the retro-funk-by-numbers style of his less talented peers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When Sir Geoffrey Howe last summer tried insisting that she name a date for next year she refused and later sacked him from the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | Walsh added : ‘ I expect James 's ankle to be right but I 'll probably start him from the bench and let him make an explosive entrance . |
| 12 | Will you please remove him from the Chamber ? ’ |
| 13 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 14 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 15 | She snatched his hand and almost dragged him from the kitchen . |
| 16 | Consider , for instance , the ability of the male praying mantis to continue copulating whilst the female steadily devours him from the head end downwards , or for the head end of a wasp to continue eating even when severed from the abdomen . |
| 17 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |
| 18 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 19 | The musical setting is carefully selected too to remove him from the tawdry everyday fray of the pop marketplace : violas , accordions , pennywhistles and assorted kitchen utensils conjure up the timeless integrity of Irish folk music ( or ‘ roots ’ in 1990-speak ) . |
| 20 | Never trusted him from the first moment . |