Example sentences of "he [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail . |
| 2 | He commissioned from Beneš of Weitmil the Cronica Ecclesiae Pragensis , and the History of Bohemia from the Italian Giovanni di Marignola . |
| 3 | A publisher had asked him to explain , some quarter of a century after the event , how he passed from scepticism to religious belief . |
| 4 | He became enormously excited and , as the rest of the party started back towards us with a huge mound of lavatory paper balanced on the ravioli , he hopped from foot to foot , clutching my arm . |
| 5 | His skeletal body clothed in dirty rags looked grotesque as he hopped from foot to foot , to the mocking laughter of the tinkers . |
| 6 | ‘ This is immensely interesting , ’ he murmurs from time to time . |
| 7 | POLICE were waiting to interview Chester 's former town crier yesterday as he recovered from burns after setting himself alight . |
| 8 | ROBERT DUNLOP made it a treble when he led from start to finish to take the second 250cc race . |
| 9 | TOM McKean completed a wonderful weekend for Scottish athletics when he led from gun to tape to take the 800 metres crown . |
| 10 | Later the same year he became president of the left-oriented Democratic Revolutionary Front ( the political wing of the FMLN ) , which he led from exile in Panama until 1987 . |
| 11 | In simple terms , the surgeon supervises and controls the robot from a computer terminal , using information that he receives from sensors at the tool-end of the robot , known as the end-effector . |
| 12 | Mr Overbye describes the changes in theory and observation accurately , engagingly and enthusiastically , though his prose is occasionally Doppler-shifted towards the purple as he dashes from subject to subject . |
| 13 | And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms . |
| 14 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 15 | Shearer , who became British football 's most expensive player when he moved from Southampton to Blackburn for £3.4 million at the start of the season , has played only 30 minutes since Boxing Day . |
| 16 | Marinello 's drift into melancholy uncannily predicted the future that Charlie Nicholas would have to endure when he moved from Celtic to Arsenal two decades later . |
| 17 | , , , or , Leonard ( c. 1621–1685 ) , gardener and nurseryman , had one of the earliest general nursery gardens in London from the early 1640s , when he moved from Southwark to twelve acres in east London , between Brick Lane and Greatorex Street , north of Old Montagu Street . |
| 18 | When he moved from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Nottingham he made the journey down the A1 for better fishing and the chance to learn from big name anglers . |
| 19 | In 1964 , at the age of 8 , he moved from Jamaica to Islington , London , where he resumed schooling , but found the demands at home often contradictory : |
| 20 | Barron bought forty acres for a nursery site in nearby Borrowash , to which he moved from Elvaston in 1865 . |
| 21 | He moved from parish to parish , almost always because of the complaints of the affronted orthodox ; far from making compromises , he founded the Guild of St Matthew , one of the earliest focuses of Christian Socialism . |
| 22 | He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week . |
| 23 | As the romance blossomed , he moved from Enfield to be nearer her home in Coatbridge and obtained a new job in the Computer Department at Stoddard . |
| 24 | Gordon Hamilton signalled his very serious approach to rugby and the international game when he moved from NIFC to Ballymena at the start of the season . |
| 25 | Lights flared as he moved from room to room , obviously checking the rest of the house . |
| 26 | He wandered from room to room without aim , and without knowing whether he was on the top floor or in the basement , ‘ just up and up and on and on and on ’ . |
| 27 | He charged from seat to seat , dodging giant feet , discarded shoes , dropped newspapers and bags . |
| 28 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 29 | He fled from persecution in Japan , where a gargantuan madness industry has been after him . |
| 30 | Finally , he sailed from Dover on 11th December 1189 . |