Example sentences of "he [verb] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Harry wondered as he climbed from the narrow guest-room bed and began to dress .
2 A tram driver hid him under a seat in return for two packets of cigarettes and he escaped from the Austrian Soviet zone .
3 He went from the light grey day into the gloom of a kitchen and immediately found his feet colliding with what appeared to be an armada of saucepans placed on every foot of the flagged floor .
4 Far from being the ‘ safe ’ appointment as most people imagined — an impression enhanced when he resigned from the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland after refusing to apologise for attending the Catholic funeral mass of a colleague — he has turned out to be a sweeping , radical reformer .
5 He blinked as he emerged from the criss-crossing coloured loops into the gloomy clearing .
6 Although he comes from the same mean streets that spawned Tyson , Bowe says : ‘ My approach is totally different to his .
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