Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 2 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 3 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 4 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 5 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 6 | It could have been the assurance of that privacy and , perhaps , the promise of food which had persuaded him in from the cold . |
| 7 | Take this mutinous dog , hang him up from the yard arm , stripe him with the cat , douse him with salt , and when he comes to , flog him some more . ’ |
| 8 | And now Jimmy had taken her hand as she hauled him back from the desk and … |
| 9 | There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures . |
| 10 | The voice seemed familiar and he felt he should recognise it , but at first he felt it only as a persuasive force tugging at him , trying to draw him back from the comfort and welcome of the light . |
| 11 | His deafness cut him off from a lot of things but he never told us to speak up and would sit at family meals with a benign expression on his face while we chattered away . |
| 12 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 13 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 14 | He was rewarded by the happiness which showed in Pam 's eyes , when he told her he was quite sure she had indeed called him back from the brink of death . |
| 15 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 16 | Webster 's increasing debts pulled him back from a contest , but he again bounced back to contest the Chichester borough elections in 1823 , 1826 and 1831 . |
| 17 | Even had he the strength , the swim would take him out from the protection of the cliff . |
| 18 | I called him in from the garden . ’ |
| 19 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 20 | But did it cut him off from the guidance he needed ? |
| 21 | And Richard took it upon himself to make his friend more sociable , bringing him up from the country for dinners and parties , to Oldfield 's obvious disinterest . |
| 22 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 23 | She was smiling and what she said almost brought him up from the bed , his fists flailing . |
| 24 | It was the Lord Ba'al 's love for the virgin Anat that brought him back from the dead , in response to her tears . |
| 25 | The way she brought him back from the dead , what can you say ? |
| 26 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 27 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 28 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |
| 29 | Holly could not resist , and they squeezed him out from the hole and when his feet were clear the two men stamped together on the steel plate to flatten it back , and between his knees he could no longer see the whiteness of snow on the stones and the zebra flash of the sleepers . |
| 30 | I thought , yeah , fair enough she goes , we can go and pick him up from the child-minder and then er you can come for some tea and you 'll be home by about half seven ! |