Example sentences of "him from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , like thousands of others around the world , I felt I ‘ knew ’ him from the wireless and his writings on the game ; but the training of binoculars on him in the commentary-box at Lord 's or The Oval was the nearest to physical contact . |
| 2 | He had clipped up his shirtsleeves with steel bracelets above the elbow and was swathed in a coarse apron which had once been white and which covered him from the knot of his tie to his ankles . |
| 3 | Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole . |
| 4 | The hard eyes still bored into him from the gloom of the hall , but the expression of hostility began a slow metamorphosis into one of malevolent interest . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 6 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 7 | Adam watched him from the top of the bus . |
| 8 | I hope the chairman of Sedgefield District Council will at the earliest opportunity demand an apology from Coun Ord and if he fails to respond , to ban him from the council chamber . |
| 9 | It is also possible to see Baker as a ‘ lightning rod ’ for the president , protecting him from the ire of conservative ideologues who , by definition , would never be satisfied with less than the whole loaf . |
| 10 | Then they peeled back the bedcovers and laid him on a crisp sheet , covering him from the waist down with another sheet . |
| 11 | We sat facing him from the customer 's end of a leather-topped desk . |
| 12 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A hidden mechanism activates , ejecting a series of sharp knife blades threatening to push him from the ledge . |
| 15 | The court may require any property transferred as part of the transaction to be vested in the company , release any security given by the company , require ‘ any person ’ to make payments to the administrator or liquidator in respect of benefits received by him from the company , provide for a guarantor whose obligations have been discharged to be under revived obligations , provide for security to be given for the discharge of obligations imposed by the order and for the priority which such security shall have , and provide for the extent to which persons may be able to prove in the winding up . |
| 16 | Whether these past difficulties should debar him from the presidency was , he said , an issue to be decided by the US people : " We 're putting this in your hands , you get to decide . " |
| 17 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 18 | Suddenly before the altar a ‘ light shining from heaven , in the manner of a sunbeam ’ appeared , which was seen as a sign of divine approval of Stanford 's opposition to Edward II and the Pope , who had deposed him from the bishopric of Durham . |
| 19 | Various accusations , including that of treason , were thereupon levelled against Stratford and attempts were made to exclude him from the parliament which met subsequently . |
| 20 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |
| 21 | It was the first time for a long while that Tommy had come into the dining rooms for his morning break and Carrie had spotted him from the window as he pulled up outside and climbed down wearily from his horsecart . |
| 22 | By this time , she was too weak from hunger and thirst to call to him from the window . |
| 23 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 24 | Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing . |
| 25 | And the childsized intruder shifted in the shadows around the stage , mocking him from the darkness . |
| 26 | It would appear that a large part of the answer was assumed by him from the outset and without argument . |
| 27 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 28 | Man , by contrast , has the potential to make this ability subject to conscious control , and it is this very difference which clearly divides him from the animal world . |
| 29 | We have decapitated him from the leadership of his country . |
| 30 | Knappertsbusch started screaming at him from the pit and that frightened me . |