Example sentences of "he [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail . |
| 2 | He became enormously excited and , as the rest of the party started back towards us with a huge mound of lavatory paper balanced on the ravioli , he hopped from foot to foot , clutching my arm . |
| 3 | His skeletal body clothed in dirty rags looked grotesque as he hopped from foot to foot , to the mocking laughter of the tinkers . |
| 4 | ‘ This is immensely interesting , ’ he murmurs from time to time . |
| 5 | ROBERT DUNLOP made it a treble when he led from start to finish to take the second 250cc race . |
| 6 | TOM McKean completed a wonderful weekend for Scottish athletics when he led from gun to tape to take the 800 metres crown . |
| 7 | Later the same year he became president of the left-oriented Democratic Revolutionary Front ( the political wing of the FMLN ) , which he led from exile in Panama until 1987 . |
| 8 | Mr Overbye describes the changes in theory and observation accurately , engagingly and enthusiastically , though his prose is occasionally Doppler-shifted towards the purple as he dashes from subject to subject . |
| 9 | He moved from parish to parish , almost always because of the complaints of the affronted orthodox ; far from making compromises , he founded the Guild of St Matthew , one of the earliest focuses of Christian Socialism . |
| 10 | He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week . |
| 11 | Lights flared as he moved from room to room , obviously checking the rest of the house . |
| 12 | He wandered from room to room without aim , and without knowing whether he was on the top floor or in the basement , ‘ just up and up and on and on and on ’ . |
| 13 | He charged from seat to seat , dodging giant feet , discarded shoes , dropped newspapers and bags . |
| 14 | He fled from persecution in Japan , where a gargantuan madness industry has been after him . |
| 15 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 16 | He punched the air and yelled something as he weaved from side to side across the road , zig-zagging into the distance . |
| 17 | ‘ Ferkin ell , ’ he says , in a special humorous artificial voice which he uses from time to time with Phil , to ward off jokes he has not entirely understood . |
| 18 | He woke from time to time and on each occasion drank a little more . |
| 19 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 20 | Adrian seemed very fond of his grandmother , and spoke of her kindly as he drove from lough to lough , through enchanted countryside . |
| 21 | But no desert when it comes to wild life , for this is the Flow Country where David Bellamy brought to popular attention how deep he could sink as he cavorted from tuft to tuft of floating bog . |
| 22 | ( He allows from time to time that it is also concerned with the quality , bad , but bad takes a decidedly second place in his discussions . ) |
| 23 | The landlord , partially blinded as he turned from sunlight into gloom , was aware only of a shadow ; a stirring of air ; a faint dull patter mixing into the rowdy mob-noise , and something brushing featherlight against his thigh as he waddled down the passage . |
| 24 | He was employed on the reconstruction of the bishop of Winchester 's palace at Wolvesey , and he acted from time to time as architect as well as builder . |
| 25 | He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time . |
| 26 | Another expression of this psychic force is found in the cynicism and bitterness he displayed from time to time when he grumbles about the dark , the flies and the cold ; but other references are very much stronger , e.g. ‘ The Cuckold 's Song ’ etc ) . |
| 27 | Yet there are others , on the fringes of power , who see him quite often at meetings of the government , at the very few moments when he shows himself to carefully selected groups of people , or when he travels from place to place . |
| 28 | You may even meet the chief executive himself , as he travels from site to site in his corporate battle-sub . |
| 29 | The constant dangers and perplexities that beset John Kemp arise from the ferocious enmity of O'Brien , whose hatred of anything English is increased by his hopeless love for the Don 's daughter Seraphina , for whose sake he moderates from time to time his evil power over the old aristocrat . |
| 30 | He discovered from Board of Trade figures for 1907 that agricultural earnings varied from an average of below 16s. per week in East Anglia and Oxfordshire to above 20s. per week in the northern industrial counties , in Middlesex and industrial South Wales , although he found ‘ thousands ’ of families living on earnings below 14s. 11d. per week , sometimes as little as 10s . |