Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] him from the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He caught a glimpse of two red faces staring at him from the depths of the kitchen behind the head of this strange boy turned girl who was forever crossing his path .
3 He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches .
4 The great rat was staring at him from the hole in the corner of the picture .
5 So we worked at it : he went to one end of a huge rehearsal room while I stood yelling at him from the other .
6 But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street .
7 Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me .
8 His name was called , and he turned his head and saw Lavinia waving at him from the porch .
9 He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat .
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