Example sentences of "[vb pp] him from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 2 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 3 | Until he had died for man 's forgiveness , until God had raised him from the dead by way of vindication , the Spirit which rested upon him was not available to be passed on to others . |
| 4 | The first tug had awoken him from a complacent slumber , the second had brought him to his feet . |
| 5 | She had flattered his self-esteem , protected him from the minor irritations of life , preserved his privacy with maternal pugnacity , had ensured , with infinite tact , that he knew all he needed to know about what was going on in his Laboratory . |
| 6 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 7 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 8 | THE BUCK STOPS HERE : Trevor McDonald 's distinguished career has taken him from a poor , but loving , childhood in Trinidad to being ITN 's first solo anchorman Picture : BILL KENNEDY |
| 9 | They had removed him from the stifling atmosphere of the Court , but already he was finding that Civil Service protocol could be just as oppressive . |
| 10 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |