Example sentences of "[to-vb] him from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 2 | Then he closed the eyes of the boy with the broken neck , and placed a coat over him to keep him from the eyes of the students he would never get to know . |
| 3 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 4 | In 1911 , aged twenty-nine , the Crown Prince was sent off to Danzig to command a Hussar Regiment ( it was a fairly transparent form of exile to preserve him from the temptations of political and amorous indiscretion in Berlin ) , but he showed himself singularly adept at escaping from the tedium of regimental duties . |
| 5 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 6 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |