Example sentences of "he [verb] from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battered , bruised and broken , Ralph Baughan is now back at home recovering from the vicious attack which saw him tipped from his wheelchair and repeatedly smashed with a wooden bar ; all for £10 . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you know what made him steal from his employer all those years ago ? ’ |
| 3 | I could almost hear him fuming from his inspection station . |
| 4 | … For that purpose it makes no difference whether the illegality is raised in the plaintiff 's claim or by way of reply to a ground of defence … ( ii ) Where the grant of relief to the plaintiff would enable him to benefit from his criminal conduct : … ( iii ) Where , even though neither ( i ) nor ( ii ) is applicable to the plaintiff 's claim , the situation is nevertheless residually covered by the general principle summarised in ( i ) above . |
| 5 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 6 | Thereafter the sees were filled ; Sidonius himself returned to Clermont , where the chief opposition to him came from his own clergy . |
| 7 | Now he saw himself step into the picture , and something he was doing or saying made the men and women before him jump from their seats , even Lionel . |
| 8 | Mr Skinner said Mr Lilley should come to the House to answer questions over ‘ the £4,000 bill the taxpayer is having to foot for him flying from his holiday cottage in France to come back to Britain ’ . |
| 9 | And I heard him read from your notes that you were an only child , with no brothers or sisters . |
| 10 | Many of Mr Clarke 's supporters believe that the attacks on him originate from his unexpected success in the fiercely fought shadow cabinet elections last August . |
| 11 | Seeing his opportunity , Khalil Ullah Khan rode up to Dara and advised him to dismount from his war elephant and ride over to take charge of the wavering left wing . |
| 12 | He believes that the subtle discrimination practised on him resulted from his active role in a North sea safety committee . |
| 13 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 14 | This was the man whom Mary of Guise described to Sadler as ‘ a simple and the most inconstant man in the world ; for whatsoever he determineth today , he changeth tomorrow ’ ; and there were plenty of people in Scotland to help him to change from his position of March 1543 . |
| 15 | The new prime minister , a businessman , is not so constrained ; and his moves have won him plaudits from his private-sector friends . |
| 16 | All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubbornness in denying that maxim … |
| 17 | Sometimes at night this thought would rouse him screaming from his sleep . |
| 18 | The former Page 3 girl had him banned from their £750,000 mansion after a fiery row and the couple announced they were to split . |
| 19 | You have probably already … . ’ — she looked viciously at her son , for a moment , making him flinch from her temper-'Women do not need more men than they have to put up with . ’ |
| 20 | Gary Richman will be sentenced once investigators have discovered just how much money he made from his drug dealing . |
| 21 | What did he want from his life — if anything ? |
| 22 | Not content with his careful appraisal of eye , he produced from his rather torn and shabby coat , a small movie camera and proceeded to set up shot after shot of a narrow-gauge narrative . |
| 23 | He produced from his briefcase his own alternative , Thirkell-designed sample pages , beautifully printed on glistening white bromide paper . |
| 24 | Tory backbencher Richard Body sees farming rather differently as he commutes from his Lincolnshire constituency . |
| 25 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 26 | Then his eyes , red-rimmed from weeping , widened dementedly and he lunged from his place swinging the long blade of his coupe-coupe high above his head . |
| 27 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 28 | Has he forgotten , within the past hour and a half , the belly laughs that he got from his own Back Benchers with his stories of social security fraud ? |
| 29 | I wanted to kill Blyth there and then ; the hiding he got from his father , my dad 's brother James , was not enough as far as I was concerned , not for what he 'd done to Eric , my brother . |
| 30 | At an already existing school with much less lavish provision , Ron Mitson of Codsall Comprehensive established a thorough change of the total organizational pattern of the school in order to provoke , stimulate and support the kind of thinking and innovation he sought from his staff . |