Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen , feeling at last that he ought to retire from contra matters — — but remembering what he had sworn ‘ on the altar of God ’ — hoped that he might still be of use to North ‘ against another group of Godless communists . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed to Jane very fitting that he should come from Cleethorpes . |
| 3 | He must come from H area , nowhere else … |
| 4 | A scientist , Colonel , and he must come from H area … ’ |
| 5 | In the middle of the medley he 'll go from bass to guitar and I 'll be playing bass pedals when he 's swapping ! ’ |
| 6 | Day to day he 'll work from home . |
| 7 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 8 | The only difference is he might run from London to Brighton , which is over 50 miles , and possibly back again . |
| 9 | He had handled many issues with skill and public spirit and good feeling , but he had no publicly recognized parcel of achievement which he could open from time to time and contemplate with satisfaction . |
| 10 | He said this in a high-pitched monotone that was intended to convey boringness ; he was , however , he could tell from Selinda 's expression , trying a little too hard . |
| 11 | In the security of the castle , run under the English training of Lady Macleod , and as long as he could potter from room to room , with the occasional short foray out beneath the weather , Johnson relaxed , and flexed his muscles for his hosts and the other guests who called to see him . |
| 12 | He could go from bed to window and table , to cupboard and door and fire and wash-handbasin , but only by certain routes . |
| 13 | In the abbot 's parlour Tutilo had a larger audience than Cadfael had bargained for , but welcomed it , or so it seemed , perhaps as leavening further the bleak reception he could expect from Herluin . |
| 14 | The touch of genius that he could evince from moment to moment , if he was exercising self-control , distinguished him from other politicians on both sides of the House . |
| 15 | It 's not as if there was a stash of notes that he could extort from Stone and take away with him . |
| 16 | As far as he could remember from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi , you were allowed to talk to women . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , he could learn from Kaplan . |
| 18 | He had never been used for a hit , and it was unlikely that he could get from Moscow to Tbilisi anyway . |
| 19 | ‘ The cv stuff he could get from Crockford . |
| 20 | One CSE Grade 1 is all he could muster from school , so , fired by the grim prospect of a factory job , he went to a college of further education where he gained four ‘ O ’ levels after a year and then took a job at a wholesale jewellers , where they were n't too optimistic about his chances of promotion . |
| 21 | It was to take a further ten years and another major crisis before he could emerge from despair and find a solution to his angst and disorientation in the ranks of the party . |
| 22 | I do n't know if chemically he 'd change from day to day or if his stars were n't right , or maybe that was the game that he played . |
| 23 | There was no telling what reaction he 'd get from Channing , of course . |
| 24 | He told me that he used to run from Chevalier Street through the unlit town streets to the office on the docks . |
| 25 | there was one bloke over in erm tha you know , with a man la , that I used to work with and he , he used to fly from Hollies , and he lost his plane one day and fle , flew out of range and er he he spent weeks looking for it ! |
| 26 | He used to cycle from village to village visiting farms to inspect the animals , then on market days he would try to conclude deals between the farmers . |
| 27 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 28 | He would walk from Ipswich and get to Witnesham soon after 6 a.m. — a five or six miles , journey . |
| 29 | He used to go He came up when he would go from Blair and he would come up our glen and he would maybe walk over the hill to Braemar , or over the hill to Clover I suppose . |
| 30 | He would recover from Suki , before very long . |