Example sentences of "he [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whe he has a chest infection you can hear him wheezing from the next room |
| 2 | Jarryd then revealed that a troublesome right calf may force him to withdraw from the Swedish team to face West Germany in the Davis Cup final next week . |
| 3 | MacGregor has the advantage of breadth of experience in Government , especially as Chief Secretary to the Treasury , a post that won him praise from the former Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , whatever that is worth these days . |
| 4 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 5 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 6 | For the horologist the nominal essence of the clock is an idea of its real essence ; in this he differs from the gazing countryman , to whom the nominal essence is simply some combination of various observable features . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is churlish of me , after the kind remarks of the Minister , to venture to comment on what he has just said , but at the risk of being tiresome , may I point out that what I said before was that it does not follow that a decision made by the Home Secretary corresponds with the advice that he receives from the chief inspector . |
| 8 | He drew from the high soprano instrument sounds totally different from what we think of as saxophone tone , remarkably pure and wide-ranging in timbre and dynamic . |
| 9 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 10 | Edward II 's cousin and the most powerful of his earls , he rose from the middle ranks of the gentry into the upper ranks of the baronage . |
| 11 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 12 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 13 | He rose from the muddy ground and began to run towards the woodland . |
| 14 | A shopkeeper has made a poster out of a letter he received from the Prime Minister 's office expressing optimism about the state of the economy . |
| 15 | A shopkeeper has made a poster out of a letter he received from the Prime Minister 's office expressing optimism about the state of the economy . |
| 16 | Now that we know what it means , will the Prime Minister reflect on the ’ double whammy ’ that he received from the other place on the Education ( Schools ) Bill last night ? |
| 17 | In 1155 he became abbot of St Victor : several letters and charters attest his financial vigilance and the practical support that he received from the English pope , Hadrian IV [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | Redmond was overwhelmed by the support he received from the British public during and since the Olympics and asked to send a message through the Daily Mirror . |
| 19 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He suffered from the small disadvantage that he had never been to Rhodesia . |
| 22 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 23 | He came from the far north and at the Highland games he used to array himself in kilt and sporran and throw cabers around like matchsticks . |
| 24 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 25 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 26 | to the inside in , working his way round it , he came from the outside and then he was coming in , you know . |
| 27 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 28 | Silly-Willie met her in the hall , he came from the farthest door ; his step was as fast and light as his dancing . |
| 29 | Clever , witty and articulate , he came from the intellectual elite which McCarthy so effectively attacked as responsible for many of America 's problems . |
| 30 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |