Example sentences of "he [verb] from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Richman will be sentenced once investigators have discovered just how much money he made from his drug dealing . |
| 2 | What did he want from his life — if anything ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He produced from his briefcase his own alternative , Thirkell-designed sample pages , beautifully printed on glistening white bromide paper . |
| 5 | Tory backbencher Richard Body sees farming rather differently as he commutes from his Lincolnshire constituency . |
| 6 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The problem is that the Secretary of State second-guesses the advice that he receives from his advisers . |
| 13 | ‘ This is what he read from her notes , I take it ? ’ |
| 14 | " I admit failure ! " he wrung from his sodden brain . |
| 15 | He moved from her mouth , and smiled , his eyes full of desire . |
| 16 | At times the sounds seemed so close he could have reached out and touched them but if he moved from his spot everything fell silent . |
| 17 | Quinn 's tough background dictated that he had to know how to take care of himself , especially when at a young age he moved from his native Mexico into an area of Los Angeles where everyone was either Irish , Mexican or black . |
| 18 | As he moved from his desk he slipped and spattered the page with blots . |
| 19 | He moved from our old house to a smaller house in . |
| 20 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 21 | If the right hon. Member has the evidence , he should place it before the Home Secretary , the police and other appropriate authorities rather than come here , in the time off that he has from his interviews on Sky , to make wild accusations about everyone involved in immigration matters . |
| 22 | He surfaced from his thoughts and turned back to the room . |
| 23 | He surfaced from his dive well out into the cove . |
| 24 | He mourns from his lone place |
| 25 | He changed from his normal calm self into a frenzy . |
| 26 | His voice fluted , thin with panic as he fled from his father and blundered into Nick , who caught and held him . |
| 27 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 28 | He dismissed from his mind , because it was of no concern at this moment , the fate of the army he had left fighting Siward . |
| 29 | ‘ I believe in action , ’ he shouted from his palace balcony , his roar rustling on the radio , as if the radio were bristling at him , ‘ in violent action against the old ways . |
| 30 | He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy . |