Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] he from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was trying to get hold of their coach to stop him from going back to Italy in a casket . |
| 2 | But they had also demonstrated , by their eagerness to deflect him from it , that his was no fool 's errand . |
| 3 | Her death delivers him from the ordeal of divorce , as frequent as funerals are in his books . |
| 4 | But all the same , Mr Browning thought it wise that she should send to the Ogilvys a letter for Gigia to carry in which both she and Ferdinando formally requested the return of their young son and gave her power to remove him from the care of his aunt and conduct him to Italy . |
| 5 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 6 | Alexei thrust past Jehana and kicked the dwarfs legs from under him , then stood over him , a foot planted on his chest to prevent him from escaping again . |
| 7 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 8 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 9 | Only the fact that he rolled on to his side saved him from being brained . |
| 10 | Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon . |
| 11 | Mr Reynolds was also shown the ward day-room and introduced to other patients to help him settle down , but his anxiety about his condition prevented him from really relaxing . |
| 12 | At Larchgrove some expressed the view that the remedial input necessary to develop Tony 's literacy and numeracy could be provided best at a residential school , but there was a stronger view that it would not be to his benefit to remove him from a secure and caring home . |
| 13 | His Anglican faith was visible rather than assiduous ; he apologises in his diaries for his work keeping him from church on Sundays . |
| 14 | His parents removed him from Wellington College in 1891 , following a diphtheria epidemic , to a school in Bruges , whence too he was removed after a homosexual scandal . |
| 15 | The intensification of attacks on the character of Clinton included fresh revelations that an uncle of his might have attempted to use his influence to prevent him from being drafted for service in Vietnam . |
| 16 | On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ … |
| 17 | Michael Williams , president of the Senate , resigned on March 8 , 1990 , complaining that his post prevented him from making comments on public issues . |
| 18 | In a letter to Prime Minister Wilfried Martens , the King , a devout Catholic , declared that his conscience barred him from signing the abortion bill into law . |
| 19 | Who said his age excused him from being a male chauvinist ? |
| 20 | He clung to a tree root until his cousin saved him from slipping into the abyss , |
| 21 | He must have been more confused than any of us ; or perhaps his ignorance prevented him from grasping just how bad things were . |
| 22 | On the outbreak of World War I he returned to England , but his health prevented him from fighting . |
| 23 | His health prevented him from active service in World War I but from 1916 he worked in the war trade intelligence department and in Admiralty research . |
| 24 | Carmichael states that ‘ the plant is secretly secured in the bodices of the women and in the vests of the men , under the left armpit ’ , while Martin Martin gives an account of a man in Berneray , Harris , who wore it in the neck of his coat to prevent him from seeing visions , and ‘ he never saw any since he first carried that plant about with him ’ . |
| 25 | In other words , they demand that he give a lead ; meanwhile , however , countless obstacles are placed in his path to prevent him from actually exercising leadership . |
| 26 | This is not to say that Hewison denies outright the possibility of a career — his concentration throughout the book on the films of Derek Jarman speaks otherwise — it is more that the pessimism of his viewpoint stops him from looking for them . |
| 27 | Vividly could he still recall his nurses preventing him from going to her there , and he knew he had stood at a window just like this , gazing with longing through the trees to the building where his mother was imprisoned . |
| 28 | A BABY boy had an astonishing escape when his mother dropped him from the balcony of a ninth-floor flat . |
| 29 | And does Bob Halton have to use his old car or the demands of his mother to protect him from yet another demanding woman , whom he senses beneath the caring , loving girl he married ? |
| 30 | ‘ He 's always laughing and does n't let his disability stop him from having fun . |