Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a look about him , as if he 'd recently returned from the Front . |
| 2 | These were considerations that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist government . |
| 3 | Leslie had first to undergo a stiff P.T. course at Hardwick , but he found to his relief that he had not deteriorated from the peak physical condition which , despite those months of idleness , had achieved for him in North Africa his acceptance into the Parachute Regiment . |
| 4 | Therefore , if there is full ex post settling up , the manager is likely to end up worse off than if he had not deviated from the accepted behaviour . |
| 5 | The electricians appeared to accept the kind of binding agreements which he had vainly sought from the print unions . |
| 6 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 7 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 8 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 9 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
| 10 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 11 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 12 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 13 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
| 14 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |
| 15 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 16 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
| 17 | He had already heard from the university that his research grant would not be extended . |
| 18 | Brian Hillier agreed with the defence suggestion that he had nothing to fear from any so-called threats , he had already resigned from the club and he was awaiting trial for cheating the taxman . |
| 19 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 20 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 21 | He had clearly emerged from a rougher mould than the well-mannered and smooth-tongued Golding . |
| 22 | He knew the man whom he had grudgingly raised from a boy . |
| 23 | Well he had actually retired from the police force , he 'd been cited and he 'd been cleared , but he was actually , as it turned out later , practising paedophilia and as he realized that in fact the investigation was coming close to him , he shot himself |
| 24 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 25 | It was small and less noisy than the farm tractor which he had sometimes watched from the edge of the primrose wood at home . |