Example sentences of "[to-vb] him from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 4 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 5 | Then they formed up around him to escort him from the arena . |
| 6 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 8 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
| 11 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 12 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 13 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 14 | Abo Mukhtar will adopt him , she says , wrapping him in a swaddling cloth to protect him from the dirt and dust . |
| 15 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 16 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 17 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 18 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 19 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 20 | They intended to kill him from the start … . ’ |
| 21 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 24 | She genuinely cares for the boy and is determined to save him from a life of crime . |
| 25 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |
| 26 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 27 | Only this managed to save him from the bullying which would otherwise visit a boy who practically lived within the works of Oscar Wilde . |
| 28 | Pip is initially horrified and recoils from the man but gradually comes to understand , and respond to , Magwitch 's love for him , and tries , with Herbert 's assistance , to smuggle the ex-convict abroad again to save him from the death-sentence he would face as an illegally returned transported criminal . |
| 29 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |
| 30 | But of course I had to remove him from the field . ’ |