Example sentences of "he was from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 16th December 1813 ’ … went to Mr. Architect Websters , he was from home , but Mrs. Architect was there entertaining company — cold of my feet and uncomfortable I returned to the White Hart spending my time with Mr. Richardson the drawing master — till Mr. Lishman came . ’ |
| 2 | He said his name was Pearson , he was from coypu control and would it be all right for him to take a look round the lake ? |
| 3 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 4 | He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood . |
| 5 | In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’ |
| 6 | The eighteenth-century chemist and Unitarian minister Joseph Priestley ( 1733–1804 ) was as keen to remove spirits from Christianity as he was from chemistry . |