Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him from the " in BNC.

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1 Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador .
2 In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties .
3 Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make .
4 He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’
5 But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club .
6 He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows .
7 Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation .
8 In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus .
9 The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop .
10 Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground .
11 The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier .
12 One person recognised him from the Bath Festival .
13 Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean .
14 As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs .
15 When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand .
16 A male is caged on one side of a barrier separating him from the females in the same cage for 2 days .
17 Every day the brave and clever assistant takes over from the master , whose slackness and lack of seriousness demotes him from the rank which seemed to be permanently his . ’
18 The March plenum expelled him from the MPRP and withdrew all his titles .
19 But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking .
20 But with an ocean buffering him from the worst of the raging debate about his future , he is showing no signs of cracking .
21 Aenarion deflected the pulsing energy with his shield but the power of the daemon 's attack cast him from the saddle .
22 He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side .
23 It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck .
24 Abo Mukhtar will adopt him , she says , wrapping him in a swaddling cloth to protect him from the dirt and dust .
25 The possibility fascinated him from the beginning , from the moment Mr Evans walked into the kitchen while they were having breakfast their first morning and bared those loose teeth in what he probably thought was a smile .
26 Now it was a pillar of darkness covering him from the eyes of the watch as he stepped out from the trees and walked steadily across the open space of grass .
27 A BABY boy had an astonishing escape when his mother dropped him from the balcony of a ninth-floor flat .
28 Her death delivers him from the ordeal of divorce , as frequent as funerals are in his books .
29 The cliff face protected him from the Eel above .
30 But all the same , Mr Browning thought it wise that she should send to the Ogilvys a letter for Gigia to carry in which both she and Ferdinando formally requested the return of their young son and gave her power to remove him from the care of his aunt and conduct him to Italy .
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