Example sentences of "from him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew why she had pulled away from him the night before — because she could n't allow herself to become remotely interested in him . |
| 2 | Crime and Punishment was different in that Dostoevsky never supposed lots of people would begin committing Raskolnikov-type murders ; Danilov doing so was enough to produce from him the exclamation ‘ It has happened ! ’ |
| 3 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 4 | I thereupon obtained from him the name of the solicitor instructed by Randolph , telephoned him and said that my own firm would accept service of the writ . |
| 5 | From him the Berkeleys inherited Georges , a French-Cockney man- servant . |
| 6 | But they went from him the way they did in dreams . |
| 7 | She hoped it hid from him the blush that fired her cheeks . |
| 8 | Why hide from him the facts that she had been coming since ? |
| 9 | ‘ Make way for the Lord Mayor , ’ she said one day on the front steps , as she moved her bucket aside , and he , bending over her , said , ‘ Many a true word spoken in jest , Rosie , ’ to which she had reacted quickly , saying , ‘ Yes , Mr Jones ; but those who sit on horsehair chairs generally get their bums scratched , ’ bringing from him the reaction of a push on the side of her head and their laughing together . |
| 10 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 11 | Berenson 's wife Mary , who had fallen in love with Scott , obtained from him the commission to remodel I Tatti . |
| 12 | At a sign from him the WAAF wound the chair back till I was completely horizontal . |
| 13 | While Biedermann and Baur were in accord with Hegel 's aim to combine Christianity and speculative philosophy , others drew from him the material for frontal attacks on Christian belief , notably Strauss , Feuerbach and Marx . |
| 14 | She had hoped for Pascoe 's sake that the MacQuillan affair would fade from his mind , but perhaps his memory was already concealing from him the truth about the killing . |
| 15 | As they approach the valley overlooked by the Mountain of God , he asks her to accept from him the gift of a necklace . |