Example sentences of "[vb past] him from his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consequence , despite protests from the Diplomatic Corps , the Chinese government dismissed him from his office on 31 January 1927 . |
| 2 | But it was Wang Sau-leyan who rose and helped him from his chair ; who walked with him , his arm about his shoulder , to the steps . |
| 3 | When you drove him from his Dream , it proved too much . |
| 4 | ‘ Come quick , ’ he cried , and tugging at Meredith 's arm he toppled him from his stool and ran him out of the door . |
| 5 | They lifted him from his chariot and placed him successively in three vats of water to quench his ardour . |
| 6 | Huy had grabbed him by the throat , lifted him from his seat , and slammed the back of his head against the wall with a force that cracked the plaster . |
| 7 | A tug at his trouser leg awakened him from his reverie . |
| 8 | Harry , galvanized by the words , sprang from his seat and lunged towards the door , but too late : an impenetrable barrier of glass and metal separated him from his quarry . |
| 9 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 10 | When he came into her she stuck him like a pig and ripped him from his abdomen up to his breastbone . |
| 11 | Franco released him from his embrace , tapped him on the chest and dropped his tone of ghastly jocularity . |
| 12 | For example , where a tenant covenanted to paint in the " last quarter of the said term " it was held that the exercise of a break-clause relieved him from his obligation ( Dickinson v St Aubyn [ 1944 ] KB 454 ) . |
| 13 | What finally propelled him from his Cabinet seat on 9 January was the promulgation of a new and improvised Cabinet convention by Mrs Thatcher — that all future ministerial statements on the future of Westland would have to be cleared by the Cabinet Office . |
| 14 | They took him from his horse , and laid him tenderly on the ground ; Ranulf stood watch while they waited quietly for the man to die . |
| 15 | Rik Mayall 's name was all it took to persuade Ate de Jong to direct the film : ‘ I knew him from his work in THE YOUNG ONES . |
| 16 | Several undergraduates who knew him from his Trinity days often came to see him and wrote to him especially at Christmas . |
| 17 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 18 | A SHOPKEEPER was fighting for his life in hospital last night after a gas blast hurled him from his bed into the street . |
| 19 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 20 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |