Example sentences of "him [adv] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 2 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 3 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 4 | Baldwin 's mission to Washington took him away from 27 December to 27 January . |
| 5 | He also had a love for soccer but his father , Harold , steered him away from that as well , fearing that his son 's competitiveness , allied to his lack of inches , might lead to him getting hurt . |
| 6 | In the first place , I 'm fond of your father and would genuinely like to keep him away from that fatal heart attack . |
| 7 | No he , it was a bit peculiar , I could n't quite make nothing and they said something about they kept him away from other children or something . |
| 8 | There was no real way of keeping him away from Irish friends … unless of course , he were to have an accident too — something that would keep him at home for several months preferably . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to Steve now and I 'm going to take him away from all this . |
| 10 | Go to the paddock and get him away from those horses — ; bought at Rosley Fair , sir and terrible wild — account ? |
| 11 | The idea of service is extended to include the work that the manager does when he leaves his office , and it is this devotion to duty which marks him off from all the others . |
| 12 | Would release embarrass him or cut him off from that obscure membership of the masculine club ? |
| 13 | He always said that in the vain hope that the girl would respond to him differently from all the others who had so casually used her body . |
| 14 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 15 | His intelligence marked him out from other prisoners . |
| 16 | As vassal of St Denis , Louis enjoyed special spiritual favour which marked him out from those whose lord was a mere mortal . |
| 17 | Again , like Marx and the elite theorists he conceives the state largely , if not wholly , in terms of domination ; and this ‘ realist ’ view distinguishes him sharply from those social scientists who , while differing about what the role of the state should be ( how interventionist or laissez-faire ) , agree fundamentally in regarding it as an autonomous and neutral body , which arbitrates among competing claims and expresses the real consensus in society that underlies particular conflicts of interest . |
| 18 | I swung in a wide circle around the machine climbing slightly to loose speed and came in at him again from dead ahead and slightly above . |
| 19 | Then the rooks were on him , mobbing him , diving at him blackly from all directions . |
| 20 | Napoleon III in his capacity as sovereign had great personal dignity as well as charm , but as an individual his knowledge of human beings and their behaviour set him apart from other European monarchs , whose more cloistered and conventional upbringing had given them a less perceptive outlook on people . |
| 21 | He was not brown like Buddie , with crinkly hair and pale palms , but a certain swarthiness of the skin set him apart from all the other boys he knew . |
| 22 | James had several other aspects to his life which set him apart from many of his colleagues . |
| 23 | His voracious and informed interest in the arts , not only ballet but plays , books , music , painting , also set him apart from most of the other students . |
| 24 | The wealth of Henry I set him apart from most European kings ; above all it set him apart from his subjects . |
| 25 | Neville Southall 's talent has always set him apart from most of his rivals . |
| 26 | She was aware that , even standing there , rolling up the sleeves above his tanned , muscular arms as he pondered the problem before him , Ross still possessed that sinister stillness , the iron self-control that had always set him apart from any one else she had ever known . |