Example sentences of "to protect he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tsarist Russia , icons were often placed in railway-station waiting-rooms and in Greece there were shrines at stations where the traveller could light candles to protect him on his journey . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've selected a midfield umbrella to protect him with players and said , ‘ look , this is your stage — now go and do it where it will really hurt the opposition ’ . |
| 3 | His raincoat was turned up at the collar , but not to protect him against the rain , for he always wore it that way . |
| 4 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 5 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 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 | This gave Conner the chance , when the breeze was light , to build up a sufficient cushion to protect him from Kanza 's better moderate air speed as the sea breeze grew . |
| 8 | Towards the end of his life , he had to be surrounded by bodyguards to protect him from germs and from contact with reality . |
| 9 | He carried it everywhere and if wandering outside put it up to protect him from what he called ‘ The Mysterious Lumps of Space' ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't particularly want to protect him from infection . |
| 11 | With him was his shadow , the poetic Zborowski , who , in brotherly friendship , wanted to protect him from the dangerous life of Nice . |
| 12 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 13 | And does Bob Halton have to use his old car or the demands of his mother to protect him from yet another demanding woman , whom he senses beneath the caring , loving girl he married ? |
| 14 | ‘ Being informed by Lord Hastings of your situation and assured by him that my lord of Gloucester intends no harm to the king your son — but , on the contrary , desires only to protect him from those who would harm him — on learning of this an hour ago whilst in my bed at York House , I at once arose and came hither . ’ |
| 15 | Abo Mukhtar will adopt him , she says , wrapping him in a swaddling cloth to protect him from the dirt and dust . |
| 16 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 17 | Towards the trespasser the occupier has no duty to take reasonable care for his protection or even to protect him from concealed danger . |
| 18 | Stephanie watched Daniel , wanting to protect him from Marcus . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ We ’ , the stupid , ignorant , umbrage-taking members of Mark 's congregation , thought Sophia , moving closer to her husband as if to protect him from them . |
| 21 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 22 | There 's no need to protect him from me . |