Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |
| 2 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 3 | One of his earliest tricks , first performed in 1865 , was ‘ escaping from a box ’ , in which he managed to escape from a locked , roped , wooden box inside a cabinet in seven seconds . |
| 4 | On a stormy night at the beginning of May he watched by the bedside of his brother-in-law , Robert Lovell , as he lay dying from a putrid fever , and tried to comfort Lovell 's young wife Mary , who was listening frantically to her husband 's ‘ loud , deep , unintermitted groans ’ during his final hours . |
| 5 | I am prepared to give way to the hon. Gentleman , but he continues to interrupt from a sedentary position , irrespective of your ruling , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 6 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 7 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 8 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 9 | ’ Donning a pair of small round plastic spectacles which he had extracted from a hidden pocket in the skirts of his frock-coat , he shambled over to the porter 's desk and ferreted around . |
| 10 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 11 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 12 | Stephen had given her the task of co-ordinating the interiors for the hotel , following the design schemes he had commissioned from a well-known Paris-based designer . |
| 13 | One of the writer 's earliest memories of Nottingham comes from 1962 when he had alighted from a local train from Sheffield at the Midland Station . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 15 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 16 | The story of King Bladud was first chronicled by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( c. 1100–1154 ) in his Historia Regum Britanniae , a collection of mythology and history relating to the early history of Britain , which he claimed he had translated from a lost book of Breton legends . |
| 17 | His room was drab and poky , but clean , rather as he had expected from a rundown lower middle-class Viennese pension . |
| 18 | With Colette , he had graduated from a hand-turned copier to their publishing company , Mystical Medley . |
| 19 | He was an evacuee , said some ; others that he had absconded from a Borstal . |
| 20 | When he had woken from a faint sleep on the ice cold floor of the cell , Holly had known that the lice had found him . |