Example sentences of "he [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He rose from the muddy ground and began to run towards the woodland . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He suffered from the small disadvantage that he had never been to Rhodesia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | to the inside in , working his way round it , he came from the outside and then he was coming in , you know . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Clever , witty and articulate , he came from the intellectual elite which McCarthy so effectively attacked as responsible for many of America 's problems . |
| 21 | The hard and expensive lesson he learnt from the sorry business was that the game could do without him . |
| 22 | He arrived from the deep country to attend university . |
| 23 | He withdrew from the final Test of the 1896 series , having opened with W.G. Grace in the previous two , after newspaper allegations that he took payments for playing , though he was an amateur . |
| 24 | He withdrew from the Congregational Union for a while because of his opposition to Irish Home Rule but peace was restored before he died in 1895 . |
| 25 | Harry wondered as he climbed from the narrow guest-room bed and began to dress . |
| 26 | That is in addition to keeping any deposit he obtained from the original buyer ( see paragraph 2–17 above ) . |
| 27 | He recruited from the ancient universities , and many of his agents were believed to be Russian sympathizers . |
| 28 | He adapted from the earthen vessel used by Yorkshire housewives for washing linen , a ‘ pneumatic trough ’ for collecting or keeping gases over water . |
| 29 | He walked from the Old Bailey into Rosie 's arms — then pushed her away in her wheelchair . |
| 30 | He stepped from the frail craft of gossamer thin nylon and fibreglass . |