Example sentences of "[prep] him from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put a hand to his cheek and saw Angie 's reflected image float up and drift towards him from the garden . |
| 2 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 3 | But his fascination with motion , the ‘ gate of natural philosophy ’ , had probably been with him from the beginning of that decade . |
| 4 | Because you 've been crackers about Christopher , in love with him from the cradle . |
| 5 | He fumbled for his skeleton keys and realised that he had not brought them with him from the car . |
| 6 | He took his typescript with him from the compartment for fear of its vanishing . |
| 7 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 8 | Immediately the anger and irritation he had brought with him from the house erupted in a howl of anger . |
| 9 | But he had brought back with him from the pilgrimage no feeling of achievement or merit , only a sense of failure with which he was already too familiar . |
| 10 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 11 | The hard eyes still bored into him from the gloom of the hall , but the expression of hostility began a slow metamorphosis into one of malevolent interest . |
| 12 | One who had faith in him from the start was Dulcie Howes . |
| 13 | In 1696 Lowther of Lowther , tired of contesting elections , employed his cousin to seek a viscountcy for him from the king . |
| 14 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 15 | The boy walked beside him from the Post Office to Lipton 's , talking about the secret that was safe between them , pursuing him into the shop itself . |
| 16 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 17 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 18 | By this time , she was too weak from hunger and thirst to call to him from the window . |
| 19 | " Anywhere , " we called back to him from the bow . |
| 20 | I held it out to him from the pouch . |
| 21 | Alice Mair had heard the car and came out to him from the kitchen , wiping her hands . |
| 22 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 23 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |
| 24 | He had the whalebone sent to him from the port of Leith from where several whalers operated . |
| 25 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 26 | The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel . |
| 27 | He takes a piece of paper from his pocket , a letter from Claudia smuggled to him from the Drancy camp in Paris . |
| 28 | He did n't pause as Dessie Burns called out to him from the hardware shop , he did n't notice Mr Kennedy looking over his glasses at all the bottles and apothecary jars in the window display of the chemist 's shop . |
| 29 | EMMA yells to him from the bedroom . |
| 30 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |