Example sentences of "him [vb infin] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 2 | Tuan Ti Fo made to correct him — to make him take from the bowl of black stones — but the boy was insistent . |
| 3 | When the King was a boy , rebels from the West Country made him flee from the city whilst the pretender , Perkin Warbeck , actually laid siege to Exeter . ’ |
| 4 | To take a few examples : J. Uvedale asked Thomas Cromwell in 1537 to find him a place with the King or with Prince Edward ; Ralph Sadler asked Cromwell to help him obtain from the Bishop of London the keepership of a park in Essex ; John Varney wanted Cromwell to get the King 's signature approving his petition for a life patent of his stewardship of Berkhamsted and King 's Langley ; Lord Sheffield hinted to Robert Cecil that he would like the vacant position of Lord Chamberlain ; and so on . |
| 5 | He thought he heard him chuckle from the shadows once , but his eyes could not penetrate the gloom . |
| 6 | She spun into the bathroom and locked the door , smiling to herself as she heard him leap from the bed , too late to catch her . |