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

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1 Like Russian Formalism , Richards 's early work turns its back on positivistic scholarship , and calls for a criticism that deals directly with the distinctive properties of literature ; where he differs from the Formalists , however , is in defining these properties in terms of human experience and human value .
2 Captain John Nisbet fought in the battle and , although he escaped from the field , he was hunted by the Dragoons for the rest of his life .
3 Although he comes from the same mean streets that spawned Tyson , Bowe says : ‘ My approach is totally different to his .
4 The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals .
5 Senna , however , will have plenty to occupy his mind once he recovers from the bitter experience of such a comprehensive defeat in front of his home city supporters on Sunday .
6 In Skipp [ 1975 ] Crim LR 114 ( CA ) , the accused was not guilty of theft of two loads of oranges and one of onions until he deviated from the correct route .
7 Promoted rear-admiral in 1963 , he became Admiral Superintendent , Rosyth , until he retired from the Navy in 1966 .
8 The legislature voted itself sweeping powers to remove Mr Yeltsin if he deviated from the constitution and cancelled a referendum on whether the parliament or president should have the primacy in Russia .
9 We 'll probably go , if he comes from the station , I will come round .
10 The widow of a Melbourne barman who died of lung cancer has been awarded A$20,000 from the man 's employers because he suffered from the adverse effects of passive smoking , despite the fact that he himself smoked 10 cigarettes a day .
11 Terhune was an assault specialist solo who had sub-contracted for H-M on several occasions , and Rodriguez was their top Colorado Op , further qualified because he came from the quarry 's home turf .
12 I suggested that Jimmy Cook was such an effective No. 1 because he played from the crease .
13 This is because he asked from the people a level of commitment that meant even in peacetime they were subjected to strict rule .
14 If , nevertheless , it is accurate , and Eadric was known as someone unwilling to oppose the Scandinavians , one can speculate that it was because he profited from the raising of tribute by acquiring the lands of defaulters .
15 He left after three years without a degree , not from any lack of ability but because he selected from the course only those subjects — analytical and applied chemistry — which appealed to him .
16 Two days after he returned from the city , Athelstan rose early and went to examine his small garden .
17 It was never entirely clear where he bedded down at night after he lurched from the pub with various caddying cronies of a like mind .
18 The conviction came after the death of New College student Henry Skelton after he jumped from the window of an Oxford house during a drugs party .
19 After he retired from the navy , Perrott was the research manager at a turbine firm .
20 Effortless transfer : Sir Patrick , who joined the BP board shortly after he retired from the foreign service in 1991 , seems to have transferred effortlessly from Whitehall to business life .
21 It was not long before he fainted from the drugs .
22 Today he 's moving onto liquids , but it 'll be a while before he reovers from the effects .
23 A test pilot too , he was the Chief Flying Instructor at the Empire Test Pilot School before he retired from the RAF to join AIB .
24 He took her back when he come from the War .
25 When he returned from the tour of Australia , Worrell was offered the position of Warden at Irvine Hall , part of the University of the West Indies in Kingston .
26 ‘ That , of course , is why , when he returned from the clinic , he came to live alone at Les Hiboux .
27 My friend says that George was only gone for five minutes , but when he returned from the toilet he said that he had been captured , flown to Venus and then forced to have sex with several beautiful Venusian lasses , who required his ‘ superior seed for the creation of a cosmic super race ’ .
28 Stephen Bunbury was hailed as a hero when he returned from the Gulf .
29 They were going to put the crane on the pipe when he returned from the stores , he said .
30 ‘ The same purveyor who greeted the King when he landed from the ferry ? ’
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