Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | His retirement took him away from the intense glare of publicity but he retained the admiration and affection of those who loved football — and those who knew little about the game but recognised a true gentleman and outstanding sportsman . |
| 2 | Napoleon III in his capacity as sovereign had great personal dignity as well as charm , but as an individual his knowledge of human beings and their behaviour set him apart from other European monarchs , whose more cloistered and conventional upbringing had given them a less perceptive outlook on people . |
| 3 | ‘ From what I 've seen of Officer Hassan , it would take more than a missing golf-club to prise him away from his suicide theory . ’ |
| 4 | Concurrently with his rural work , Whiteley became a prominent member of the Ipswich branch and his support of some of its antipathetic policies and attitudes towards the District distanced him somewhat from Wash , Pateman and Shearman , who became District Vice-Chairman in 1931 . |
| 5 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 6 | He was standing aloof , black-haired , broad-shouldered and narrow-hipped , taller than the average Italian , an air of contained , but absolute authority setting him apart from the noisy , gesticulating mob . |
| 7 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |
| 8 | He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime . |
| 9 | On an impulse , Hari hugged Will and then with a grimace held him away from her . |
| 10 | Rohmer was surprisingly strong , but the impetus of Cardiff 's lunge spun him away from the girl . |
| 11 | She was shouting now , scorching with pain , pushing at his hard chest in a futile effort to move him away from the door . |
| 12 | ‘ A. J. P. Taylor , ’ he bellowed , as the ebb and flow of the crowd carried him away from me . |
| 13 | Although Alexander 's public image set him apart from his conservative father , Nicholas I , in fact the values of the two Tsars differed little . |
| 14 | The company flew him specially from Europe to Bristol at the time . |
| 15 | She got help from the special unit , took out a court order to keep him away from her . |
| 16 | The ice began to break , and the sea carried him away from me . |
| 17 | He was not brown like Buddie , with crinkly hair and pale palms , but a certain swarthiness of the skin set him apart from all the other boys he knew . |
| 18 | Again , like Marx and the elite theorists he conceives the state largely , if not wholly , in terms of domination ; and this ‘ realist ’ view distinguishes him sharply from those social scientists who , while differing about what the role of the state should be ( how interventionist or laissez-faire ) , agree fundamentally in regarding it as an autonomous and neutral body , which arbitrates among competing claims and expresses the real consensus in society that underlies particular conflicts of interest . |
| 19 | A low buzz of power warned him away from touching it . |
| 20 | But , says Alfred , it would take more than Hollywood stardom to lure him away from the Sussex cottage he shares with Jill and 12-year-old Rachel , his daughter from a previous relationship . |