Example sentences of "from [noun prp] he " in BNC.

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1 Me dad came to live er me dad from Norfolk he came in shepherd boy
2 In organising from Hull he had the advantage that his members were short voyage men , mostly employed on weekly boats .
3 Bob Sillitoe says that since he came back from Kilimanjaro he 's been looking for something else … another challenge … the climbing has given his son a great sense of confidence
4 From Eton he went to New College , Oxford , to read natural sciences ( zoology ) and engineering , receiving a second class in 1910 .
5 In 26 months since his £300,000 move from Highbury he has made just 18 full appearances — none this season — and has now been handed a free transfer .
6 From Kissingen he ordered the head of the Secret Committee to abandon his delaying tactics , and almost immediately after his return to St Petersburg , in July 1857 , he offset the appointment of Murav'ev to the Secret Committee by adding his brother , the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich .
7 Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes .
8 Michael drifts into Red Rock where the bar owner mistakes him for Lyle , the hit-man from Texas he has hired to kill his wife .
9 They served Caledor well and when the Dark Elves were driven from Ulthuan he foresaw the need for constant patrols to keep the island safe .
10 According to another story from Lipchitz he complained bitterly that Beatrice had ‘ bitten him in the balls ’ .
11 From Hegel he derives his basic manner of thinking , asserting the primacy of experience .
12 Gertrude Stein , too , wrote in her book on Picasso : ‘ Upon his return from Gosol he became acquainted with Matisse through whom he came to know African sculpture . ’
13 In all the letters I received from David he was always slagging him off , ’ says Janet .
14 Nothing to do whether it was you from , from Saturday he 's never been the same , will you pick up your pen before they go on the floor , what else have you got lurking on the bottom of your bed ?
15 To visit London again from Swanage he would travel by boat for the first part of the journey or by carriage along the rough road to join the Emerald coach at Wareham , both taking a whole day .
16 By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern .
17 When , after notable delays , the first Free French representative , Jean Sainteny , arrived in Hanoi from Kunming he had apparently already been informed by his travelling companion , Major Archimedes Patti of the American OSS , that as the Potsdam agreement made no mention of French sovereignty over Vietnam the French therefore had no right to intervene in affairs which were no longer their concern .
18 From Poitou he ravaged French territories .
19 While he was there , he got an invitation from Archbishop Hugh to go to Lyons , and from Lyons he wrote to the pope explaining his reasons for leaving England .
20 On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal .
21 A few months after he return from England he bought a flight ticket to Montevideo in Uruguay .
22 Although he was pardoned by the King and sent into exile ( presumably for his own protection ) , there were riots against him after his release from the Tower , and when he sailed from England he was intercepted and murdered on 2 May .
23 From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September .
24 Inclusive of the manor of Clipsham his Rutland property alone exceeded £12 in value , and from Buckinghamshire he drew a further £43.2 As a gentleman , the absentee William Dall ( or Dale ) could also be expected to have other property , and was in fact lord of the neighbouring manor of Tickencote , where he resided .
25 ‘ But he 's unusually shy and when he first arrived from Millwall he felt his price tag was a burden .
26 After his return from Russia he had married Mary-Anne , daughter of John Neville , a Dublin merchant .
27 I 've got a little bit here going from Mr he had to come in again and see to two lights and he 'd only take two pounds and that included the light bulb , but I paid him so that comes out of the .
28 From Cambridge he was appointed professor of natural philosophy at Anderson 's College , Glasgow ( the nucleus of what later became Strathclyde University ) , and held that post from 1872 to 1880 .
29 From Congleton he turned south-east for Leek instead of going westwards into Wales and on 3 December rejoined the main Jacobite army at Leek .
30 Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon .
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