Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him from [art] " 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 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 3 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 9 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |
| 10 | Doyle 's attention was drawn by a youth , wearing suit and bow-tie , who called to him from an empty table . |
| 11 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 12 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 13 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They scratched and squeaked and ran about , and stared at him from the holes in the walls . |
| 16 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 17 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He takes a piece of paper from his pocket , a letter from Claudia smuggled to him from the Drancy camp in Paris . |
| 20 | He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway . |
| 21 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 22 | A shower of dust sprinkled his face but before he could react the gunman leaped onto him from a ledge on the wall . |
| 23 | Four days later , Patrick Donnelly , his solicitor , wrote to him from a hospital bed : ‘ What a tremendous thrill to hear of your release ! … |
| 24 | " 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 . |