Example sentences of "he [vb -s] from [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of inching his way into new sorties , new lives , he takes what he needs from earlier ones . |
| 2 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 3 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |
| 4 | The ease with which he passes from provincial gaucheries to suave Franco-Italianate portraiture , which made him painter to King George III , is fully recorded . |
| 5 | Of the covenants by the tenant running with the land that " to pay rent or taxes " and " not to assign or underlet , " and by the landlord running with the reversion , " to renew the lease " are the most apposite of the instances which he quotes from decided cases . |
| 6 | He quotes from local antiquarians and contemporary records ; ‘ Alexander Brodie of Brodie , the Laird of the lands adjoining the Barony of Culbin , kept a detailed diary throughout the years from 1651 until 1680 , when he died . |
| 7 | He suffers from severe fits . |
| 8 | Beccaria 's classical programme is a mixture of basic assumptions about the nature of human beings and the way they relate to crime and conformity , and empirical conclusions that he draws from these assumptions about how best to control crime . |
| 9 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 10 | His article is particularly valuable for the evidence which he adduces from contemporary documents , some of which is of considerable importance in helping to determine the facts of Molla Fenari 's life ; but much of what he says is , as will be shown , based on so little genuine historical evidence ( insofar as this can be judged from the sources he quotes ) and appears so speculative that it must be treated with some caution . |