Example sentences of "he [vb past] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter the sees were filled ; Sidonius himself returned to Clermont , where the chief opposition to him came from his own clergy . |
| 2 | He believes that the subtle discrimination practised on him resulted from his active role in a North sea safety committee . |
| 3 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 4 | " I admit failure ! " he wrung from his sodden brain . |
| 5 | Quinn 's tough background dictated that he had to know how to take care of himself , especially when at a young age he moved from his native Mexico into an area of Los Angeles where everyone was either Irish , Mexican or black . |
| 6 | He moved from our old house to a smaller house in . |
| 7 | He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy . |
| 8 | He rose from his enormous desk and lit a big cigar — it could n't have been a Havana — and strutted around his vast office like a peacock , admiring his reflection in the long mirror . |
| 9 | Rock singer Roger Clinton , 36 , told of his love and respect for Democrat victor Bill as he talked about the abuse he received from his alcoholic father . |
| 10 | Following dissension over the appointment to a professorship at Aberystwyth in 1919 ( connected in part with his having been a conscientious objector during the war of 1914–18 ) he withdrew from his academic post in order to study in the faculty of science at the University College . |
| 11 | One would not have believed his grubby Lada capable of such manoeuvres as he coaxed from its grinding engine but , after a moment of horror , I sat back and enjoyed the ride . |
| 12 | The 35-year-old player wants to leave Gloucestershire , the county he joined from his native Yorkshire in 1984 . |
| 13 | ‘ Two minutes , no more , Piper , he remarked from his comfortable armchair at the entrance to the latrine . |
| 14 | He benefited from his present involvement by time off school , he said ! |
| 15 | He glanced from her empty hands up to the panel . |
| 16 | Indeed , he cut from his published version his original account of the hospitality they experienced — a pity because it constituted a valuable little sliver of social history , describing their arrival in ‘ a low parlour ’ of this two-storeyed house , to be greeted with tea from a silver service . |
| 17 | He worked from his normal station , in the top storey of a house on Highgate Hill , and he worked with increasing depression . |
| 18 | But it was Eliot who in the end loosened the hold of the " modernists " on English culture — not only did he assert the public role and " social usefulness " of the writer in an almost nineteenth-century manner , but he also announced that the principles he derived from his religious belief were more enduring than literary or critical ones . |
| 19 | And Daine 's neural dysfunctions have shaped his Dream as much as the externals he took from his old vids . ’ |
| 20 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 21 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 22 | Connelly felt himself losing consciousness but he was aware of being slapped hard across the face , even if the pain of the blow was negligible compared to the mind-numbing suffering he felt from his burned hand . |
| 23 | Howard James had felt pain before , but nothing to compare to the agony he felt from his shattered leg . |
| 24 | He resigned from his Egyptian government posts on May 15 . |
| 25 | Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | Moreover , he learned from his own experience that the most profitable truths were not the finer details of theology but the great essential teachings of Christianity . |
| 27 | Boyd was calling up the stairs for Hank to come down , and she watched silently , as if at the movies , while he emerged from his ground-floor bedroom , walked past her without looking at her , and held out his hand to the reporter , who winced as he felt its grip . |
| 28 | He had from me that gift with subtle ties , freedom without complaint ; subtle ties and guaranteed disillusion . |
| 29 | As he recorded in the letters , he carried from his earliest years one overriding impression , which was quickly summarized : ‘ My Father was very fond of me , and I was my mother 's darling — in consequence , I was very miserable . ’ |
| 30 | The man is a rogue , he stole from his own firm and now that he is serving time in Swansea Prison , I could never allow him near you , let alone marry you . ’ |