Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adj] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had n't he heard as much from The Man himself often enough ? |
| 2 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 3 | Typically , he drew as much from the personality of each bird as from the relative characteristics of a particular species . |
| 4 | He seemed somewhat separate from the ‘ up yours Vivien , fuck you Thatcher ’ explosion . |
| 5 | While Graeme is certainly a very opinionated and forthright personality , he seemed more aloof from the players to me . |
| 6 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 7 | When at last it was all over he felt quite sick from the shock . |
| 8 | Although Clinton expressed his disapproval of private investigations of public lives , he remained largely aloof from the Perot-Bush exchanges , stating that he was content to " let them play it out " . |