Example sentences of "he [vb past] from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what is not generally known by the public is that although you will be designing all these items , the finished work will he commissioned from outside studios in the case of advertisements and print work , while TV commercials will be made by independent production companies . |
| 2 | He hurried through the open doorway into the house and a few seconds later reappeared carrying a rifle which he passed from one hand to the other as |
| 3 | Hence , on the one hand , his wide knowledge of books , paintings , music , his interest in the specialist knowledge of people he met from other walks of life , his responsiveness to many artistic influences , and his concern for people . |
| 4 | Was that not what he expected from Asian shopkeepers , and did that justify breaking their bones ? |
| 5 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 6 | This ensured there was time to make to love to her , an activity that would frequently fill the time as he moved from one lady 's home to another 's . |
| 7 | In 1843 he moved from central Liverpool to Percy Villa in Northumberland Terrace , Everton , and during the hey-day of St George 's church he was one of the most active parishioners . |
| 8 | Ken was brilliant in it , especially the parts where he moved from medieval English to Anglo-Saxon and then to just some noises . |
| 9 | He was blasted in the back with a shotgun as he fled from 12 men who burst in hunting for him . |
| 10 | Lucien could not see very far in front of himself because of the tablecloth over his face and was unaware of the bewildered and amused glances he received from passing house staff . |
| 11 | The snubs and indignities that he received from that quarter have passed into Gaullist lore : when he so much as enquired about the progress of the assembly 's constitutional commission , one of his own former ministers told him it was none of his business . |
| 12 | A key factor in President Fernando Collor de Mello 's February 1990 election victory was the backing he received from major television networks . |
| 13 | One source said the general was closely scrutinising the list of telephone calls of support he received from senior officials during the coup to see who called , and whether it was before the rebellion was known to have failed . |
| 14 | In his later years he suffered from occasional bouts of insanity . |
| 15 | And he suffered from moral gaucherie also : he disapproved , he reproved . |
| 16 | However , he suffered from indifferent health , and a visit to Egypt led to his becoming seriously ill from typhoid . |
| 17 | He suffered from retrolental fibroplasia ( RLF ) . |
| 18 | He suffered from chronic bronchitis and arthritis , conditions that sprang from the way he had had to live in war-torn France . |
| 19 | John Bate stood in for his father during his frequent absences — he suffered from chronic bronchitis — giving evidence to several parliamentary commissions on weights and measures before his own early death of consumption in 1840 . |
| 20 | Ephraim Shapiro worked in London in the Russian department of the B.B.C. Wartime conditions suited this complicated man , as he suffered from chronic insomnia and liked fire-watching by night while emerging in daylight to make predatory raids on the thinly attended sale-rooms which provided a happy hunting ground for someone with eyes as sharp as his . |
| 21 | He suffered from muscular dystrophy , however , and the creeping paralysis of that wasting and mortal disease had , by the time Eliot grew to know him well , consigned him to a wheelchair . |
| 22 | During the last twenty years of his life , however , he suffered from increasing deafness and the effects of an internal complaint , in consequence of which ‘ he withdrew much from society , and lived very retired . ’ |
| 23 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 24 | After Darren was born , he had to stay in hospital an extra ten days because he suffered from epileptic fits . |
| 25 | Mozart 's final illness lasted 15 days , during which time his body swelled , he vomited intermittently and he suffered from high fever . |
| 26 | He suffered from post-traumatic stress because of a lone confrontation with eight youths two years earlier . |
| 27 | In his collection of essays on genius the distinguished neurologist , the late Sir William Russell Brain , concluded about Smart that ‘ clearly he suffered from manic-depressive insanity or cyclothymia ’ and there is much to support that diagnosis . |
| 28 | He suffered from ill health in 1840 , and again in 1842 and 1844 . |
| 29 | Throughout the autumn and winter he suffered from feverish colds and attacks of bronchitis , and was often forced to take to his bed for a week or fortnight at a time . |
| 30 | There was no longer any carpet underfoot — merely drugget , a material he recalled from nineteenth-century novels dealing with servants ' quarters . |