Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] him from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 2 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 3 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 4 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ They , at least , confined themselves to giggling like village idiots when they watched him from the tower . |