Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suddenly emerged from the water , in front of her . |
| 2 | Or to worry about the thin but penetrating drizzle that greeted him when he finally emerged from the subway . |
| 3 | He finally graduated from the University of Erlangen in 1779 at the age of twenty-four . |
| 4 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 5 | Ten years after the Gunpowder Plot he still cried from the pulpit , ‘ Would they do it by fire ? |
| 6 | This he carefully filled from the bottle and then replaced in the greatcoat . |
| 7 | However when he temporarily withdrew from the race she switched to Bill Clinton . |
| 8 | It was stuffy but bearable and , despite his length , large enough , provided he remained crouched in the foetal position ; which meant he nearly gagged from the smell of almonds . |
| 9 | He now receded from the City , rarely appearing at the exchanges , even the Baltic , the scene of his most memorable deals in Russian tallow . |
| 10 | To rub it in he then scored from a free-kick ( which he was allowed to take a second time ! ) . |
| 11 | However , he then faded from the scene and afterwards said : ‘ I had a lot of clutch trouble and I 'm bitterly disappointed for I thought I had a real chance . ’ |
| 12 | The police say he then fled from the refuse truck , running into the timber yard . |
| 13 | Pushing all the forceps to one side he almost ran from the room and reappeared shortly with a tray on which reposed a long chisel and a metal mallet . |
| 14 | He almost died from a combination of dysentery , malaria , septic sores , and a head wound , and attributed his unexpected recovery to reciting Shakespeare 's plays , several of which he knew by heart . |
| 15 | He almost sprang from the window and was down the back stairs and into the yard within seconds . |
| 16 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 17 | He never wavered from the view that the whole sequence of vertebrate life on earth was an expression of a divine plan , unified into a coherent whole by the rational power of the Creator 's mind , but divided into distinct sections that could never be linked by natural processes . |
| 18 | ‘ He never recovered from the way people treated us there , all that spite and unkindness and the way they spoke of you , Jim . ’ |
| 19 | February 1702 , his horse stumbled on a mole hill in Hampton Court Park , and he never recovered from the fall , dying at Kensington on 8th . |
| 20 | The disinherited lords themselves were ruined by Edward Balliol 's failure to hold his kingdom : Gilbert de Umfraville , for example , titular Earl of Angus , had had to mortgage a number of his manors to raise money for the invasion of Scotland and he never recovered from the collapse of his cause . |