Example sentences of "to distract him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He told me he wrote it to distract him from pain in his last days . |
| 2 | Napoleon III 's ministers had worked hard to bring about the visit — not merely because it was in support of the Emperor 's policy but also , it was hoped , to distract him from his privately announced intention of himself going to the Crimea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ As for any home , I 've none , nor never did have , ’ she said quickly to distract him from too much thinking . |
| 5 | This was a puzzlement , and he was glad he had the soothing spectacle of Midnight Mass to distract him from it . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 7 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 8 | Anstey is the father of a pink cheeked vision of health and material well-being who tries to distract him from his writing by showing him her doll , a fashionably attired figure which intervenes in the space between them . |