Example sentences of "him from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a patch where the rough surface of brickwork was exposed , someone had vomited , probably a passing drunk whose sense of propriety , demanding privacy , had deterred him from being sick in the street ; or a returning resident who could not wait to climb the few steps to the communal toilet on the first half-landing . |
| 2 | He also exhibited a flirtatiousness aimed at everyone and everything , ‘ a desire to charm [ which ] prevented him from being sufficiently implacable ’ ( pp. 152 — 3 ) . |
| 3 | His engineering brilliance has taken him from being Rolls-Royce 's ‘ infant prodigy ’ to Lotus ' ‘ grand old man ’ , with a sheaf of important achievements along the way . |
| 4 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 5 | The very payment of the sum at the instant of arrest would not , on many occasions , prevent him from being taken away . |
| 6 | It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire . |
| 7 | The claim failed when the EAT held that neither the derecognition of an established trade union , nor the disadvantages for employees resulting from that derecognition , was action taken against Mr Wilson ‘ as an individual ’ for the purpose of penalising him or deterring him from being a union member . |
| 8 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 9 | Diverse roles in A Fish Called Wanda and Cry Freedom have kept him from being pigeon-holed by casting directors . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 11 | His eyesight was below par which disqualified him from being a pilot — and annoyed him a lot — but he passed out as a navigator . |
| 12 | More , he lived in hope that one such mirror would find something behind his looks only another pair of eyes could see : some undiscovered self that would free him from being Gentle . |
| 13 | His back had been pierced by a metal spike and only the fact that he remained conscious saved him from being dragged wholly into the moving machinery . |
| 14 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 15 | Patrice Orfilat , a fearful , whimpering wretch bearing a grudge against Thorez whom , he assumes , had prevented him from being nominated as a PCF candidate for the 1936 elections , petrified at the thought of war and his own death , attempts to find a job in the Foreign Affairs Ministry , and is ultimately disdainfully rebuffed by an orthodox party member unperturbed by the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 16 | There was a a s an Indian student came to and he was a prospective Labour candidate , but the Labour Party prevented him from being a candidate er because er his main theme in life was to try and get India free from you know the British Empire . |
| 17 | This did not save him from being imprisoned from 1661 to 1667 on suspicion of plotting against Charles II . |
| 18 | Even so , he was their servant , not they his , and that fact bridled his tongue and kept him from being too familiar with them . |
| 19 | Michael Banks 's charm did n't prevent him from being forceful , and Peter Hickton had to concede defeat . |
| 20 | Who said his age excused him from being a male chauvinist ? |
| 21 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Only the fact that he rolled on to his side saved him from being brained . |
| 24 | An argument over the restaurant bill or at the cinema box office is humiliating and undignified for a man , and her good manners must save him from being put in such a situation . |
| 25 | The British traveller and journalist , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace , believed Alexander " had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds " and that " This dislike , joined to a goodly portion of sober common-sense , a limited confidence in his own judgment , and a consciousness of enormous responsibility , prevented him from being carried away by the prevailing excitement " with which his reign began . |
| 26 | His tragic owner John Goult , or ‘ Old Jack ’ as he was known to neighbours , also knew the pet he adored was very sick but had tried to spare him from being put to sleep . |
| 27 | The Chemics have refused Hornets permission to play McKenzie in their Regal tie against French side Catalan to prevent him from being cup-tied . |
| 28 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |