Example sentences of "he was [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't tell much about him as he was covered from head to toe in red crash helmet with black visor , red riding leathers and red boots . |
| 2 | He refused to comment as he was bundled from court with his girlfriend into a waiting car . |
| 3 | He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . |
| 4 | ‘ Get on with it , Ruthie , ’ he told her , and though he was grinning from ear to ear she knew what was powering him and she felt the excitement blossom in herself . |
| 5 | He was grinning from ear to ear and the first stabs of doubt needled at Ruth 's heart . |
| 6 | In middle age he became more patient as he was harried from city to city and lost all his papers in a shipwreck . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
| 8 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 9 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
| 10 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |
| 11 | He was gone from sight of man for eight months . |
| 12 | He was buffeted from side to side , and swore in what Anne thought was an Australian accent . |
| 13 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 14 | He was saved from isolation of the mind by a lucky proximity . |
| 15 | Then , on D'Arcy 's insistence , he was passed from extension to extension . |
| 16 | She looked at Phil ; he was encased from top to toe in black leather , as always . |
| 17 | Hector , as eager as she for the only brief release he was allowed from confinement in the bedchamber , trotted at her heels , obedient to her call . |
| 18 | He was released from prison on Feb. 9 , 1990 , and held a seventh meeting with Arafat on March 9 . |
| 19 | He was released from prison in September . |
| 20 | He was released from prison after thirty months , returned to his barker 's job in San Francisco and took up with a stripper . |
| 21 | He was released from hospital after treatment to a leg wound . |
| 22 | He was released from confinement in January 1763 , and in that very year published , with other poems , A Song to David , his masterpiece . |
| 23 | If he plays in all five Pakistan Tests , he will be one short of 100 appearances for England , and that includes three years in the middle of his career when he was banned from selection for involvement in a rebel tour of South Africa . |
| 24 | Richard Vines was its librarian , but he was removed from office after six years and , after he had openly burned his certificate of membership of the society , he was voted to be a non-member . |
| 25 | He was promoted from Minister without Portfolio to Deputy Prime Minister in the government unveiled by Mr Adamec last Sunday . |
| 26 | He was taken from home to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital but was found to be already dead . |
| 27 | The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell . |
| 28 | He could have been much more seriously hurt , but he was burned from head to foot anyway . ’ |
| 29 | He was suspended from duty after alleged irregularities during a fraud and drugs investigation in Milton Keynes five years ago . |
| 30 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |