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

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1 He attacked any deviation from ‘ class positions ’ in public life , and called for a more vigorous defence of the founders of socialism .
2 If the proxy was signed by the proxyholder himself , he can not vote in favour of any remuneration being paid to himself unless he produced written authorisation from his principal showing that he was entitled to sign the proxy .
3 He produced another discod from his jacket .
4 At his own suggestion , he sold fresh chicken from refrigerated vans which travelled through particular routes within a defined area in the Midlands .
5 The armed following that accompanied Robert the Frisian on his Jerusalem pilgrimage so impressed the Emperor of Byzantium , Alexius Comnenus , with its martial bearing that he requested similar assistance from the west .
6 Anyway , this mate of his and his wife — things went from bad to worse , seems he met this woman from Dundee who travelled down regular on the same train and one day he just Got Off with her and the upshot of the whole thing was a Dear-Jeannette-Letter from Sullom Voe .
7 In February 1946 he appointed thirty-two cardinals from all parts of the world , and twenty-four more in 1953 .
8 Clearly worried by growing opposition to reforms that have drastically eroded living standards , Mr Yeltsin reshuffled his government last week in an attempt to shield some of the younger , more radical ministers he appointed last autumn from the wrath of the Congress .
9 He offers brand-new tomes from the New York Times best-seller list at exactly half off — with no tax to pay .
10 Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently .
11 Perhaps he expected some protest from Constanza , a declaration , perhaps he hoped for it .
12 Mr Brandreth has been campaigning for the Army 's new pay and personnel centre to be located in Chester and he led two delegations from the city to see Mr Hanley 's predecessor , Archie Hamilton .
13 He got better Girls from there , not boasting .
14 He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her .
15 he 's a lot better though he got them tablets , he got some tablets from doctor on Monday when he went
16 Though he got some support from Board members Hilary Wainwright and Vella Pillay of the Bank of China ( who changed his mind and agreed that Sutton had to go as soon as he saw Pilger 's pages ) , there was no real point .
17 SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc .
18 On 30 April 1991 he sought legal advice from Marshalls concerning an order that he attend before the court in Manchester for examination by the liquidator of the company .
19 He sought alternative images from his nursery reading .
20 However , the collector will suggest a reallocation if there is an overdue charge against which a repayment can be set and will proceed with the reallocation unless he receives contrary instructions from the taxpayer .
21 He intercedes on behalf of the people , and he wins some pardon from God .
22 He wins universal applause from his followers and admiration from the reader , despite the fact that he is going to take away the paradise which may still have been ours .
23 Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike .
24 Not only were many of his proposals radically altered by the Duma , but he encountered stiff opposition from the State Council and the Tsar himself gave him no more than lukewarm support .
25 Where did he fund this committee from one has to ask immediately .
26 He drew strong criticism from Jews and many gentile Poles , by comparing abortion with the Holocaust of the Second World War , when 600,000 Polish citizens were murdered .
27 He drew some comfort from the expectation that revision would be necessary inside a year or two .
28 Maybe he caught some virus from a jungle or a desert somewhere , and it infected his brain and slowly ate it away and he got hallucinations and tremblings and gnashings of teeth till eventually he fell into a coma and was flown home .
29 He has strong support from Yorkshire Tories and is understood to have the backing of Mr Cranley Onslow , the committee 's chairman .
30 A SUPERB athlete , he has eleven wins from twelve chases to his credit , including the Champion Chase at the Festival .
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