Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 2 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 3 | He 'd grinned from ear to ear , grey eyes dancing . |
| 4 | He kept shifting from foot to foot , as if in pain . |
| 5 | ‘ He had a role , but he kept going from character to character , using a whole lot of different accents , cockney one moment , the voice of a high court judge the next . ’ |
| 6 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 7 | The best portrait of Chaucer was one he had made from life for his patron 's copy of the Regiment of Princes , where it accompanied Hoccleve 's praise of his master . |
| 8 | As for Uncle , he had suffered from rheumatism for as long as I can remember , so , all-in-all , we always had more work than we could really cope with . |
| 9 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 10 | For a lord 's status was directly related to the size of following he could support , and the larger his entourage the more frequently he had to move from estate to estate to feed them . |
| 11 | He had to recite from memory in front of his headmaster fifty Greek lines from the play Medea — a severe punishment , for learning fifty lines of verse in a language imperfectly known would take several hours of spare time . |
| 12 | He had worked from dawn until dusk without a break . |
| 13 | The populace generally played little part in that agitation , but when Wilkes returned from the exile in 1768 to which he had fled from fear of imprisonment , debt and the fighting of a duel , to fight the Middlesex election , he became the symbol of a much wider agitation . |
| 14 | Those leaving the Cabinet , besides Thatcher , were Cecil Parkinson , who indicated that he intended to retire from Parliament at the next general election , and Lord Belstead who was appointed to a non-Cabinet post . |