Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he want to move from the city to a farm in Scotland ? |
| 2 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 3 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
| 4 | Suddenly it occurred to Alexei that in the event that he failed to return from the embassy the question of solemnising the marriage would not arise , and he wondered again how far he could trust Burun . |
| 5 | One of the offences to which Gavin pleaded guilty was a specimen charge of £100 , an amount he admitted taking from the account once or twice a month between March and October 1991 . |
| 6 | That night , Seb had so much to drink that when he tried to rise from the ground beside the camp-fire to return home his legs felt like rubber and he sat down again unexpectedly . |
| 7 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 8 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 9 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 10 | In view of the exhortation by the hon. Member for Southampton , Test ( Mr. Hill ) a few minutes ago that we should buy British when we buy food , I wonder whether the Minister can tell the House what representations he has received from the Ministry of Defence on his consultation document ? |
| 11 | The customer 's duty to take care of the goods ceases 21 days after he cancelled the agreement , unless before then he has received from the trader a written signed request to hand them over . |
| 12 | Should the Secretary of State decide not to give effect to any of the recommendations he has received from the Council , he is required to publish a statement explaining his reasons . |
| 13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what representations he has received from the Transport and General Workers Union about training and enterprise councils . |
| 14 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 15 | The consequence of this may be , and in some cases will be , to divest a third party of title to property which since the commencement of the bankruptcy he has acquired from the bankrupt . |
| 16 | At a nearby house , Leonard Hough , a retired schoolmaster , had earlier told me about ‘ the fog ’ which he says comes from the factory . |
| 17 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 18 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 19 | a man stuck ‘ jewels ’ he 'd gathered from the beach |
| 20 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 21 | Kalchu climbed on to the roof of the house , and with the flame he 'd brought from the shrine fire set light to the two piles of jharo . |
| 22 | He took out the keys that he 'd brought from the office back home , and opened the door . |
| 23 | The horror remained on their faces , but for some reason he 'd disappeared from the scene . |
| 24 | Hawkins was standing at the top where he 'd climbed from the ladder and was gazing nonplussed at the strange scarecrow on the floor . |
| 25 | However he says he hopes to establish MNOD as an industry standard for storing musical information , since it retains information that is lost in the MIDI format , and once he gets backing from the industry , work will begin on extending the format . |
| 26 | He began to realize from the nature of these sites how the leys could have been constructed . |
| 27 | As he was speaking , he began to walk from the kitchen into the sitting room . |
| 28 | Mr Clinton will scale back the $12 billion he hopes to raise from the tax over the next five years by between a third and two-thirds . |
| 29 | Eventually he managed to escape from the hospital and spent the rest of the war in the mountains with the partisans . |
| 30 | He managed to escape from the car and struggle to nearby houses where he was given first aid . |