Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marigold would have preferred Highgate , he knew , but in spite of the therapy and the control he shied away from Highgate . |
| 2 | He rides away from Queen Isabella in hopeless fury , rides day and night , and when his mule dies under him he shoulders his ridiculous gipsy patchwork bags , their rowdy colours muted now by dirt ; and walks . |
| 3 | Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third . |
| 4 | He would talk it over with Charlie when he got in from work . |
| 5 | This role may have been rather a disappointment to both sides , as General Gallagher said when he got back from Hanoi , although by opposing the clearance of wartime US mines that had been laid in Haiphong harbour , thus preventing an early return of French troopships , Gallagher seems to have come down rather heavily on the Vietminh side . |
| 6 | It would only be another twenty-four hours until he got back from Soldeu . |
| 7 | He dashes about from place to place and function to function endeavouring to record all aspects of the local scene , trivial as well as tragic . |
| 8 | While Rain finished her breakfast , Tim told her how he had decided to see her again and how he found out from Barbara Coleman when the next visit to the villa would be . |
| 9 | You see he moved away from communism as |
| 10 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 11 | Discovered by Heidrick in the course of a search , he rose quickly from associate in 1964 to partner by 1968 , in charge of the recently-opened New York office . |
| 12 | He says apart from drill in the sense of head-counts , turn your back to the blast area and sitting on the ground covering your eyes and so on — none whatsoever . |
| 13 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 14 | That is why it does not surprise me in the least to hear from my hon. and learned Friend about the letter that he received yesterday from Mr. Beck 's erstwhile cellmate . |
| 15 | Roos 's donation of ‘ La Celestine ’ to the French State and the undertaking he received afterwards from Culture Minister Jack Lang that another rare Picasso he owned , ‘ Les Noces de Pierrette ’ , would be allowed to leave the country , thus greatly increasing its value , is an aspect of the Celestine affair which has not featured in the court case . |
| 16 | A MAN suspected of drunken driving was under arrest last night after a father-of-four was mown down and killed as he cycled home from work . |
| 17 | At the beginning of his journey he suffered badly from homesickness . |
| 18 | Always of weak constitution , he suffered progressively from blindness in his last years , and died a bachelor 14 March 1855 in Thurlby . |
| 19 | He suffered constantly from fever ; he was frequently threatened by bandits and once nearly murdered ; he was injured several times ; he endured hot summers and cold winters and periodical earthquakes . |
| 20 | For printing , he uses a wall-mounted De Vere enlarger , with which , to get the size , he shoots literally from ceiling to floor — with many pairs of worn jeans to prove it . |
| 21 | When he came here from Russia , he was penniless , which is why he became a doorman at the Ritz . |
| 22 | He came home from school some days later and said he had been ‘ thinking very seriously about our situation ’ — he was already beginning to be pompous — and that it was quite obvious that some women were unsuited to a life which held nothing but home and children . |
| 23 | I do n't know I have n't looked at the invitation , he just told me when he came home from school he 'd got a party . |
| 24 | She was very excited by the stickers and would tell her father when he came home from work . |
| 25 | Her husband Harold was a lamplighter and when he came home from work he was obliged to take off his boots in the passage and place them on a sheet of newspaper before entering the inner sanctum . |
| 26 | it was fine , I thought right get up and get them bloody curtains washed , I had 'em on the line , but do you think our Mike noticed them , well when he came home from work , because I thought of having to put 'em back up again , I just |
| 27 | erm I do n't have a relative in the Gulf erm but I for my own peace of mind , I wanted to keep up to date with things that were going on erm and also for my husband really , he is at out at work all day and I , you know it was nice when he came home from work for me to be able to tell him exactly what went on . |
| 28 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 29 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
| 30 | From a letter written so that I could read it to Basil before he came home from hospital : |