Example sentences of "from him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 2 | The amusement in his voice stung , and she snatched the papers from him and stuffed them deep into the pocket of her briefcase . |
| 3 | They tried to grab the cash from him and knocked him to the ground . |
| 4 | Bob took it away from him and kept it . |
| 5 | He thinks the Ukrainian probably was killed and someone stole it from him and got it to Europe . ’ |
| 6 | When she tackled him in the wood , he produced the gun to frighten her off but she wrested it from him and shot him . |
| 7 | Again she saw blue , paler , more transparent , stringing out from him and knew he meant to touch her in reassurance but did n't know if he should . |
| 8 | He took Duncan 's suitcase from him and put it on the back seat . |
| 9 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 10 | She wriggled away from him and stared him in the face . |
| 11 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 12 | But in the same split second something like an iron band clamped round his waist , squeezing the breath from him and bringing him to a dead stop . |
| 13 | Mrs Wright took the letters from him and tore them . |
| 14 | Jack snatched it from him and tore it in two . |
| 15 | Windeler took the sheet from him and slipped it into a drawer in the desk . |
| 16 | ‘ I had to get you away from him and have you close to me . |
| 17 | Tallis felt the warmth from him and loved it . |
| 18 | One of his mates took the dented tube away from him and opened it , splashing froth over a window . |
| 19 | The T'ang took the folder from him and opened it . |
| 20 | Nevertheless she thought it best to humour him and sat down on the side of the table away from him and put her clasped hands on its polished top . |
| 21 | Releasing her abruptly , fitzAlan pulled Isabel 's arms away from him and held them , gazing down at her face as if the sight of her tormented him beyond bearing and yet he still could not bring himself to look away . |
| 22 | So he fought with him and and took his stick from him and gave him a whack on the head and he dropped , and the story goes he says we 'll go home now lads . |
| 23 | Bodie took the sheet from him and crumpled it up . |
| 24 | I took the nail deliberately from him and hammered it in . |