Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.

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1 It was almost as though he was trying to erect walls around his heart to protect himself from his softer feelings .
2 Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets .
3 But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away .
4 Alexei thrust past Jehana and kicked the dwarfs legs from under him , then stood over him , a foot planted on his chest to prevent him from escaping again .
5 His mouth prevented her from replying , violently possessing her lips while his hands roughly sought to drag off her bodice completely .
6 She saw his glance rake her from the top of her shining chestnut hair over her make-up-free face , and down over her pretty cotton wrap to the tips of her toes .
7 His glance raked her from head to foot before he even moved further and she could see that he thought her very decadent to be in her housecoat at this time in the morning .
8 He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’
9 Only the fact that he rolled on to his side saved him from being brained .
10 Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon .
11 Mr Reynolds was also shown the ward day-room and introduced to other patients to help him settle down , but his anxiety about his condition prevented him from really relaxing .
12 At Larchgrove some expressed the view that the remedial input necessary to develop Tony 's literacy and numeracy could be provided best at a residential school , but there was a stronger view that it would not be to his benefit to remove him from a secure and caring home .
13 His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays .
14 The intensification of attacks on the character of Clinton included fresh revelations that an uncle of his might have attempted to use his influence to prevent him from being drafted for service in Vietnam .
15 On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ …
16 Michael Williams , president of the Senate , resigned on March 8 , 1990 , complaining that his post prevented him from making comments on public issues .
17 Alternatively , he might spread the front of the shirt across his body to stop it from slipping down his arm .
18 Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room .
19 Quite clearly he was torn between his desire to excuse himself from further cross-examination and his obedience to the protocol which kept him in the presence of a member of the Royal Family until he was dismissed .
20 representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred .
21 In a letter to Prime Minister Wilfried Martens , the King , a devout Catholic , declared that his conscience barred him from signing the abortion bill into law .
22 He did n't know where his father got it from , but there was plenty of it .
23 He had smoked one cigarette after the other , holding them cupped in his palm to protect them from the rain .
24 Who said his age excused him from being a male chauvinist ?
25 Burun clenched his fists and bit his tongue to stop himself from shouting out .
26 He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss ,
27 He must have been more confused than any of us ; or perhaps his ignorance prevented him from grasping just how bad things were .
28 The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves .
29 His performances on video and in the flesh at seminars are electrifying as he paces around , shirtsleeved and sweating , exhorting his audience to liberate themselves from old ways of thinking .
30 Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters .
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