Example sentences of "he [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 2 | Thus the star of the show is the mock-up of a banquet complete with the extraordinary salt cellars he commissioned from the Regency silversmith Paul Storr — a crab and winkle here , a triton or braying donkey there , all of gold . |
| 3 | Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS . |
| 4 | It was not long before he fainted from the drugs . |
| 5 | He crept from the room to the shadowed corridor , tip-toed past the attic door to the little corner where the banister curved into the wall . |
| 6 | This is because he asked from the people a level of commitment that meant even in peacetime they were subjected to strict rule . |
| 7 | ‘ And what must we not say to Feargal ? ’ he asked from the doorway . |
| 8 | He led from the front the campaigns for : |
| 9 | Like the others he failed from the Centurion corner , so tried to gain entry from the right . |
| 10 | These were the pleasures he got from the beauties of nature , from the music of Wagner , from the watercolours of Beatrix Potter , from the books of William Morris , George MacDonald and Wordsworth . |
| 11 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 12 | Sand was a writer with a popular following ; Flaubert , who never grew used to the lashings he got from the critics , struggled to follow her instructions to rise above their hostility . |
| 13 | That 's a note he got from the Editor the other day , giving him the sack . ’ |
| 14 | That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them . |
| 15 | Adam could afford it because of the money he got from the sale of Wyvis Hall and later from the sale of the London house he bought with the money from the sale of Wyvis Hall . |
| 16 | Kolchinsky was used to the gentle ribbing he got from the operatives about his cost-cutting exercises but when it came to the crunch he would never put any of their lives at risk for the sake of the budget . |
| 17 | All he had done was what she had told him to do and when he phoned from the motorway to tell her he 'd done it she 'd gone mad ! |
| 18 | He may have found service under the Protectorate more congenial than that of the Commonwealth ; in 1653–4 he moved from the navy to the central executive , becoming assistant secretary and then clerk of Oliver Cromwell 's council and treasurer of the protector 's contingencies . |
| 19 | Then he moved from the centre of the room towards Franca , who moved quickly aside , and sat down on the chair which she had vacated , and leaned his head back against the wall and closed his eyes . |
| 20 | Fifteen minutes later he moved from the window , tore up some pages , sat looking at the scraps , and then began to write again . |
| 21 | He moved from the fireplace . |
| 22 | erm He drew from the Bible at least one maxim , I think his grandmother was also in favour of it but he certainly was , ‘ Do not , or is it , Never follow a multitude to do evil . ’ |
| 23 | He peered from the screen . |
| 24 | He desisted from the attack , and began to withdraw . |
| 25 | Her shots tore off one man 's ear and wounded another man in the buttocks as he fled from the pub . |
| 26 | A JOYRIDER was captured on video as he fled from the scene of a hit-and-run accident . |
| 27 | A BURGLAR who left his snarling rottweiler behind when he fled from the law launched a midnight raid on a police station and nicked it back . |
| 28 | As soon as he finished his speech , he fled from the Chamber like a fly-by-night quack doctor , disappearing before his patent medicine is tasted . |
| 29 | Did Humphreys suffer his major injuries when he fell from the disc jockey 's platform at the Hippodrome , or in the streets later on when he fled from the ambulance and was restrained once more ? |
| 30 | After we had eaten our frozen roast-beef dinner and I was washing up , he shouted from the bathroom for his razor . |