Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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1 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
2 | With that , he hopped down from the rock , leaving its previous occupant free rein over the throng . |
3 | At ten o'clock he rode out from the Elysée to be greeted by the cheers of the people , and on entering the Place de la Concorde he was saluted by cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ and shouts of ‘ To the Tuileries ! ’ . |
4 | Yet in the matter of the primacy , which entailed the most extensive ecclesiastical power in western Europe apart from that of the papacy , he fought stubbornly from the beginning to the end of his archiepiscopate against every papal or local obstacle to the exercise of this power . |
5 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
6 | So he got away from the bed , he had his hands up . |
7 | Eventually he got away from the dogs , + hid under a car , panting loudly . |
8 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
9 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
10 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
11 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
12 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
13 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
14 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
15 | He got down from the cab . |
16 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
17 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
18 | Did Boy ever ask himself why he did n't dream about men , when he got home from The Bar — why he had instead these strange dreams of shoots , bulbs and roots ; roots kept in the dark , waiting to flower , needing a gardener 's attention ? |
19 | ‘ I mean , d' you think he got back from the mission he was on , ’ said Lee , putting his face right up close to the picture . |
20 | ‘ I think Yorick wrote that whole page when he got back from the party . |
21 | It would be about seven o'clock when he got back from the cricket match with Patrick . |
22 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
23 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
24 | He straightened away from the stone urn and slipped his hands back into his trouser pockets . |
25 | He read hard from the beginning — everything from the most popular to the most awesome works . |
26 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
27 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
28 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
29 | He moved confidently from the two charming putti who supported the tablet to Major the Honourable Clement Braithwaite , fallen at Peshawar in 1840 , to that of the religious and virtuous Clarissa , relict of Bertrand Hardy of this county . |
30 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |