Example sentences of "he from [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punishing someone for doing the wrong thing may inhibit him from that action but does not establish a better pattern . |
| 2 | On that occasion Themistokles carried his view ; but ( Plutarch says ) the Spartans took against him from that moment , preferring to advance Kimon instead . |
| 3 | Here , Davie pays a handsome compliment to one fellow critic by implying that the best of his prose can stand comparison with an eighteenth-century writer 's ‘ sharp and exact delineations of what in one poet 's work distinguishes him from all others ’ . |
| 4 | The entry will be placed on the Proprietorship Register and will read : Note : The transfer to the proprietor contains a covenant by her with [ Husband ] to pay the monies secured by Charge No 1 and to indemnify him from all claims and demands in respect thereof . |
| 5 | Donaldson read the form through and signed it ; only his silence was needed to keep him from all liability . |
| 6 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
| 7 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 8 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 9 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 10 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
| 11 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 12 | Politicians are slinging arrows at him from all sides . |
| 13 | Intrigue and treachery , especially from former officials , were advertised in public as besetting him from all sides . |
| 14 | Six of them , ringing him round , closing in on him from all sides . |
| 15 | She wanted to watch him and then say something to find out how hard it would be to retrieve him from such self-preservation . |
| 16 | The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells . |
| 17 | If a certificate of summary administration is in force , the official receiver need only investigate the bankrupt 's conduct and affairs if he thinks fit ( s 289(5) ) The official receiver must , at least once , send a report of the state of the bankrupt 's affairs to all creditors and file a copy at court ( r 6.73 ) although the court can release him from this obligation having regard to the funds available and the interests of creditors generally ( r 6.77 ) . |
| 18 | All she could see of him from this angle was that he was a very large man , broad as well as tall — so tall that he had to bend his head over his task . |
| 19 | He had n't admitted this for fear it would disqualify him from this part of the mission , and anyway he had thought he would feel safe behind the comforting protection of a pump-action . |
| 20 | I had considerable difficulty in dissuading him from this course and only did so when I was able to convince him that , far from assisting Aitken , it would damage his cause . |
| 21 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 22 | In ‘ Troilus and Criseyde ’ the narrator intrudes into his story ; he would like to shield Criseyde from her approaching adultery , but claims his role as ‘ translator ’ prevents him from this alteration of the text . |
| 23 | I thought at the time that her absent luncheon companion must have been a boorish character , and even the greatest friends of Randolph Churchill would find difficulty in defending him from this charge . |
| 24 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |
| 25 | I know now what her power is strong enough to shatter a man 's mind and cast him from this world . |
| 26 | Her stepfather , who had been there since he left home , drinking coffee and mineral water and reading the papers , turned his chair slightly , so that she would not be able to see his face , supposing that one adult male back would look much like another to those of Camille 's generation : his wife , he thought , would have recognized him from any angle . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But a court order bans him from any contact with the baby . |
| 29 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 30 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |