Example sentences of "him [adv] from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , at any rate , was what the headmaster thought , watching him keenly from his sitting-room , sipping a cup of atrocious coffee . |
| 2 | ( 183 ) But she admired even more what came later ; how after she had ceased wanting to blot him entirely from her mind , to make him not to be , they had found that they could after all talk good sense and kindness to each other . |
| 3 | But she recognised him already from his photograph , although he had put on so much weight . |
| 4 | For much of their engagement his royal duties had taken him away from her side . |
| 5 | Before I was pregnant , I at least was a distraction for him — I kept him away from her tent , but now his favours were of a material kind , she did not like it . |
| 6 | I could n't get him away from his bench . |
| 7 | There was a boy she fancied herself — Jeff Freeman — and she was busy laying plans to entice him away from his steady girlfriend . |
| 8 | It was a victory for her each time that she wrested him away from his desk and his teleprinter and his uniform . |
| 9 | Lloyd George dominated him but could never prise him away from his party roots ; when Lancashire opinion moved away from coalitionism in 1922 Derby moved with it , and provided the opposition with added credibility . |
| 10 | ‘ From what I 've seen of Officer Hassan , it would take more than a missing golf-club to prise him away from his suicide theory . ’ |
| 11 | Before he had fully recovered , Christian hauled him to his feet and dragged him away from his groaning adversary . |
| 12 | Without thinking , she plunged into the mob , caught hold of the leather-worker and tried to drag him away from his assailants . |
| 13 | How are we going to keep him away from our tree ? |
| 14 | ‘ Whether he knows or not , however , keep him away from my sister . ’ |
| 15 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 16 | Mrs Phillips said today : ‘ I was bringing him home from my daughter 's house when he got out of his cage . |
| 17 | The wealth of Henry I set him apart from most European kings ; above all it set him apart from his subjects . |
| 18 | Although Alexander 's public image set him apart from his conservative father , Nicholas I , in fact the values of the two Tsars differed little . |
| 19 | She pushed him sternly from her mind . |