Example sentences of "[prep] he from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 2 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 3 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I want to share with him from the earliest moments the joy , the vindication , the victory after all that we have gone through together . ’ |
| 5 | Viktor had sketched the green enamel and the twinkling diamonds in the tattered book he 'd taken with him from the charnel house that had been his home . |
| 6 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 7 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 8 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 9 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 10 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 12 | I glanced at my watch , found I had forgotten to adjust it and read the time for him from the digital clock at the base of the instrument panel . |
| 13 | Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature . |
| 14 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 15 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 16 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 17 | Surely there could be no gain to him from the old lady 's death ? |
| 18 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 19 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 20 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 21 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 22 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |