Example sentences of "i [vb past] he from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 2 | Only his skin , as I inspected him from fairly close quarters , was pallid and blotchy . |
| 3 | ‘ I phoned him from the training ground yesterday and had a row with him because it was embarrassing for Barnet . |
| 4 | ‘ I recognised him from Seville , yes . ’ |
| 5 | I released him from the tomb . |
| 6 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 7 | I collected him from the airport and he scarcely drew breath ! |
| 8 | I ordered him from a kennel in Norfolk , arranging a price and delivery by train . |
| 9 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 10 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 11 | Rik Mayall 's name was all it took to persuade Ate de Jong to direct the film : ‘ I knew him from his work in THE YOUNG ONES . |
| 12 | No , I knew him from the school . |
| 13 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 14 | I saw him from my window — |
| 15 | We went to school together , I saved him from a beating and he rescued me from a hanging , twice ; once in Ipswich and then again at Montfaucon , that great forest of gibbets which stands near the Porte St Denis in Paris . |
| 16 | When Nigel came back he lay down on his stomach and held out a big stick which the Mayor clutched and Otley and I pushed him from the back until we got him out none the worse for his adventure . |
| 17 | I recognized him from the wedding photograph old Ma Scamp had flashed in front of me . |