Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him from the " in BNC.
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1 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
2 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
3 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
4 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
5 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
8 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
9 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
10 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
11 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
12 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
13 | He takes a piece of paper from his pocket , a letter from Claudia smuggled to him from the Drancy camp in Paris . |
14 | He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway . |
15 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
16 | " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth . |