Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] from the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 5 | It could have been the assurance of that privacy and , perhaps , the promise of food which had persuaded him in from the cold . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | And now Jimmy had taken her hand as she hauled him back from the desk and … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even had he the strength , the swim would take him out from the protection of the cliff . |
| 15 | I called him in from the garden . ’ |
| 16 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 17 | But did it cut him off from the guidance he needed ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was smiling and what she said almost brought him up from the bed , his fists flailing . |
| 20 | It was the Lord Ba'al 's love for the virgin Anat that brought him back from the dead , in response to her tears . |
| 21 | The way she brought him back from the dead , what can you say ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | Cos erm Richard 's gon na pick him up from the meal . |
| 28 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 29 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 30 | But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest . |