Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 2 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 3 | Jarvis 's train set , the one which had diverted him from his mother 's grief on the day her father hanged himself , was laid out on the floor in Lower Six , a classroom on the top floor , and Jarvis had told Jasper he could play with it whenever he liked . |
| 4 | Then he read a textbook of hers about the craft of the dramatist and it had stopped him from showing her anything for a year . |
| 5 | Often , he had to hide the marks Gina had given him from his pupils . |
| 6 | On the next floor , he found a toilet , slipped in and lit a cigarette , then took the envelope Himmler had given him from his pocket and opened it . |
| 7 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 8 | He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground . |
| 9 | It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat . |
| 10 | She , in turn , wondered why they could not understand that she loved their father and had rescued him from a life of solitude . |
| 11 | In Bamburgh castle , where they had carried him from Wooler as soon as he was fit to be moved , the earl of Douglas took his ease in a very light and illustrious captivity . |
| 12 | If the policeman had approached him from behind , for example , and the defendant had acted without seeing who confronted him , he should have the defence , as Williams and Ansell hold . |
| 13 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 14 | Only her own determination had prevented him from vomiting it back . |
| 15 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 16 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 17 | At least , he felt , an act of Providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience . |
| 18 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 19 | Patrice Orfilat , a fearful , whimpering wretch bearing a grudge against Thorez whom , he assumes , had prevented him from being nominated as a PCF candidate for the 1936 elections , petrified at the thought of war and his own death , attempts to find a job in the Foreign Affairs Ministry , and is ultimately disdainfully rebuffed by an orthodox party member unperturbed by the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 20 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 21 | While his Christian faith had prevented him from becoming Foreign Minister in Moslem-dominated Egypt , many Western diplomats regarded his marriage to an Egyptian Jew as a potential asset in promoting Arab-Israeli understanding . |
| 22 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 23 | He had never been this close to him before , though of course he had seen him from a distance on parade , the short , brisk figure in green and white , dwarfed by the forest of cocked hats around , yet somehow contriving to dominate them all . |
| 24 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 25 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 26 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 27 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 28 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 29 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 30 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |