Example sentences of "[to-vb] he from [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 2 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 3 | Donaldson read the form through and signed it ; only his silence was needed to keep him from all liability . |
| 4 | ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger . |
| 5 | Towards the trespasser the occupier has no duty to take reasonable care for his protection or even to protect him from concealed danger . |
| 6 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 7 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 8 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 9 | All that he could do would be to advise him strongly against resigning , and , as he had done when attempting to dissuade him from dissolving Parliament , back up his advice with a formal protest , allowing Baldwin to tell his colleagues that the King objected to the course he was taking . |
| 10 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 11 | In 798 those who had plotted against King Aethelred now came together again , probably with the intention of restoring Osbald , for Alcuin wrote to Osbald evidently seeking to deter him from renewed intervention in Northumbrian affairs . |
| 12 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 13 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 14 | On Dec. 30 , after finding Collor guilty of corruption and official misconduct , it voted by 76 votes to three to ban him from public office for eight years , a penalty identical to that for impeachment . |