Example sentences of "him from [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately Tom dragged him from under the blanket and he began barking and chasing his tail . |
| 2 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
| 3 | But even as he prayed he could hear the voice of William 's grandad berating him from under the lid of the closed coffin . |
| 4 | If he can not stand , the patient might be transferred to his bed before being cleaned , but if he is using a commode , it is usually possible to clean him from under the commode seat , once the pan of the commode has been taken out of the way . |
| 5 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |
| 6 | Quinn had watched him from across the street , tending his exterior fruit-display or disappearing inside to attend to a customer . |
| 7 | him from behind the bar , saying : ‘ I never want |
| 8 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 9 | In fact we used to send him up something rotten , Angela Scoular and I. We 'd make funny faces at him from behind the camera , trying to make him corpse . |
| 10 | She stared at him from behind the barrier of her flowers , wordlessly holding out the paper-wrapped roses . |
| 11 | Then Izzie was calling him from behind the pageant . |