Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him from the " in BNC.

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1 I phoned him from the training ground yesterday and had a row with him because it was embarrassing for Barnet .
2 I released him from the tomb .
3 Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time .
4 I collected him from the airport and he scarcely drew breath !
5 Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated .
6 He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer .
7 No , I knew him from the school .
8 When Nigel came back he lay down on his stomach and held out a big stick which the Mayor clutched and Otley and I pushed him from the back until we got him out none the worse for his adventure .
9 I recognized him from the wedding photograph old Ma Scamp had flashed in front of me .
10 If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side .
11 Having got this far , he allowed himself another minute or so before confronting the thousand-day journey which separated him from the bathroom .
12 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 .
13 O'Neill denies using abusive language to referee Eddy Green , who dismissed him from the dugout during a win over Northwich on March 24 .
14 He was saved by another servant who recognised him from the banquet .
15 She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine .
16 When it came to electing a successor to the deposed Archbishop Fitzherbert at Richmond ( North Riding ) on 24 July 1147 , Bishop William opted for Henry Murdac [ q.v. ] , favourite of the Yorkshire reformers , against King Stephen 's candidate ; presumably it was Murdac who released him from the suspension he incurred for failing to attend the Council of Reims in March 1148 .
17 She released him from the leather strap then ran next door to call the police .
18 She followed him from the dining-room , and Ernest shut the kitchen door .
19 He said it lightly but as she followed him from the staff-room she was aware that her heart had begun to beat very fast .
20 Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing .
21 She followed him from the room , along the gallery and down the stairs to the library , where Nicolo turned to her abruptly .
22 Firemen who pulled him from the inferno looked on anxiously as off-duty technician James McDonald tried to revive him .
23 In the small mezzanine ‘ A ’ -Control Room stood the producer , his eye on the second-hand of the wall-clock and his right hand raised to signal the start to the conductor who watched him from the studio .
24 ‘ Oh , I think we can do better than that this time , ’ she told him , as she steered him from the sitting-room and along the hall and into Sebastian 's bedroom .
25 He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life .
26 And for fatherless Havelock Wilson , sea captain 's grandson , it was his storytelling grandmother who set him on his life path , despite a mother who banned him from the harbour at Sunderland .
27 We got him from the RSPCA and he is my first dog .
28 We got him from the Dogs ’ Home and he 's never been very obedient . ’
29 we got him from the rescue , animal rescue you know
30 Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders .
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