Example sentences of "from him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 2 | The same powers which took my friend 's video away from him at the airport and threatened his livelihood into the bargain , have routinely been used against our whole culture . |
| 3 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 4 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 5 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 6 | in Brazil the archbishop now in his late eighties I should think was renowned everywhere said that there 's a quote here from him on the Traidcraft leaflet . |
| 7 | It was a lot if I got one jokey line from him on the back of a postcard . |
| 8 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
| 9 | As to the monthly payments , we have already said that we see no sufficient grounds for disturbing the judge 's findings that the receipts of sums by the plaintiffs from the defendant after Miss Guile left the flat represented no more than was due from him on the footing that he was liable only for monthly payments of £86.66 . |
| 10 | He held it to his nose and smelled its furry warmth , then spun it away from him with a twinge of regret at having torn it so wantonly . |
| 11 | Pushing herself away from him with a jerk , she found herself locked into his taunting gaze . |
| 12 | Luib took the practice sword from him with a nod , and he joined them at the edge of the field . |
| 13 | If Simon had n't had other things on his mind — if he had n't been distracted by you — ’ the word burst from him with a violence which made her recoil ‘ — he would never have made that fatal error . ’ |
| 14 | She levered herself away from him with a hand on his chest and looked him dead in the eye . |
| 15 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 16 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 17 | She flung herself away from him for a moment , and then returned to attack his sex but he held her off , had to use some force to hold her blind-eyed , gaunt-faced , now grasping body away from his . |
| 18 | If only she could get right away from him for a while , then she 'd be able to cope . |
| 19 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 20 | ‘ No , I have not heard from him for a month now . ’ |
| 21 | Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session . |
| 22 | This house belonged to a shipyard owner , but the Navy took it from him for the duration and now it 's a hostel for Wrens . |
| 23 | Her mission was to request some drawings from him for the opening show of her London gallery , Guggenheim Jeune . |
| 24 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 25 | Moving away from him to a place further along the deck , she grimaced at her own rudeness . |
| 26 | The Master of the Rolls , who is originally a very subordinate officer , with charge of the documents of the court , comes to be at the end of the seventeenth century a judge who can hear Equity cases , though there is an appeal from him to the Chancellor . |
| 27 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 28 | The summons of Winchelsey to Rome only served to redirect baronial irritation away from him to the pope . |
| 29 | Mr. Back Q.C. , for the appellant , contended that if Mr. Occhi consented to the appellant taking the £6 , he consented to the property in the money passing from him to the appellant and that the appellant had not , therefore , appropriated property belonging to another . |
| 30 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |