Example sentences of "he [vb past] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in came James — and he recovered from a jittery start to stamp his authority on an emphatic Liverpool win . |
| 2 | Lester Piggott as he recovered from a racing fall . |
| 3 | Bicker doctored the hurts of the horses with some strong-smelling salve which he gouged from a small wooden box and smeared on their wounds . |
| 4 | In larger schools , and at the secondary stage , the organization of spaces and necessary reservation of particular areas remains a complex job , but can he approached from a different viewpoint . |
| 5 | FOURTEEN-year-old Manoel Jorge Santos had no idea of the perils awaiting him in Sao Paulo when he fled from a broken home and brawling stepfather , trudging 50 miles to the city 's cathedral square in search of a new life . |
| 6 | He rose from a cushioned wicker chair as soon as he saw her and came to take the tray , saying , ‘ You 're Belinda , of course . |
| 7 | Perhaps more fundamental than this was the criticism he received from a Methodist minister that the book does not really mention , let alone do justice to , the central Christian doctrine of Justification by Faith . |
| 8 | He suffered from a weak stomach . |
| 9 | He suffered from a bad stutter , and the delighted hilarity of his classmates as he stumbled through simple texts was agony . |
| 10 | He came from a respectable family . |
| 11 | He came from a good home , was well educated and had every advantage . |
| 12 | He came from a good , supportive family and had never been in trouble before . |
| 13 | This may in part have been a political move , for if he was the son of Ealdorman Æthelmær of Wessex , as is usually assumed , he came from a major West Saxon family , and had a brother , Æthelweard , executed by Cnut in 1017 and a brother-in-law ( another Æthelweard ) banished in 1020 . |
| 14 | Like them he came from a rural family , right outside the westernised professional class . |
| 15 | He came from a cricketing family — his father was a leading fast bowler in Antigua — and his great talent was evident very early on , so that he was already popular with the fans as a youngster . |
| 16 | He came from a long-lived line and was himself in rude health . |
| 17 | He came from a rich family and was very good-looking . |
| 18 | He came from a small force , Plymouth , and did n't realize that big forces were totally different . |
| 19 | He came from a prosperous or at least commercially successful Lincolnshire family which emigrated to Massachusetts in 1633 and 1634 . |
| 20 | He came from a loveless home , where the emotions were sterilized to avoid infection . |
| 21 | Banging the table , he shouted ‘ order ’ , and continuing in English — to the amazement of members — he said he came from a noble family in Normandy and in Normandy , they were used to doing things in an orderly way . |
| 22 | The chairman was Jack Bennett , a former member of the CPNI ; he came from a Protestant background and had led a campaign in the late 1950s to get the CPNI to return to the pro-republican line of the Irish Communists in the 1930s . |
| 23 | ‘ He came from a military family — his father rose quite high in the Navy — so he was as undisciplined in his life as he could be . |
| 24 | He came from a Methodist home , made his ‘ supreme decision ’ at fourteen and became a Sunday School teacher , local preacher and eventually , in 1875 , a minister . |
| 25 | Like many German poets of his age , he came from a clerical family and was intended for the church . |
| 26 | He profited from a striking convergence between his philosophy of government , which was based on the need to bypass intermediaries such as parties and establish a direct relationship between himself and the people , and a technology which facilitated precisely that kind of personalized and direct communication . |
| 27 | Having previously written some plays and two novels — The Jesuit ( 1832 ) and The Prelate ( 1840 ) — his break came when he returned from a continental tour in 1849 to write for the London Journal . |
| 28 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 29 | He returned from a pained abstraction , and smiled at me a little ruefully . |
| 30 | He returned from a cold and rainy holiday in Switzerland to find himself faced with a mountain of correspondence and other business ( he was receiving in this period something like fifty letters a day , although most of them were handled by Valerie Fletcher ) . |