Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolls-Royce will be hoping there are more where he came from . |
| 2 | Well , you can not put Harry back where he came from . |
| 3 | He came here as quite a young man , perhaps twelve , fourteen years ago , but we never knew anything about him , where he came from , who is parents were . |
| 4 | And this were a er field p his regiment with his regiment on , and he wrote his name on and where he came from . |
| 5 | Like Russian Formalism , Richards 's early work turns its back on positivistic scholarship , and calls for a criticism that deals directly with the distinctive properties of literature ; where he differs from the Formalists , however , is in defining these properties in terms of human experience and human value . |
| 6 | ‘ This coming from a man who 's got the same surname as where he comes from ! ’ splutters Granville . |
| 7 | Where he comes from , it 's probably considered insulting not to . ’ |
| 8 | If he 's still here , would you go and talk to him for me , just casually , find out where he comes from . ’ |
| 9 | Where he differed from Darwin was mainly on the critical issue of evolution , i.e. , the proposition that one species could change over time into another species , but his arguments on these matters were by no means obscurantist or naive . |
| 10 | In both cases the decider ends up where he started from . |
| 11 | As the weather was nice I transferred the goldfish to my garden pond where he stayed from May to September . |
| 12 | ‘ Which means we can find out where he called from , ’ said Golding . |
| 13 | Satan lies to his followers and has convinced us too of his mighty strength and even starts to believe in his own lies when he claims he was ‘ self-begot ’ , caused by Fate , or he sprang from the ground or willed himself into existence , an absurd contradiction in terms . |
| 14 | Captain John Nisbet fought in the battle and , although he escaped from the field , he was hunted by the Dragoons for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | Although he comes from the same mean streets that spawned Tyson , Bowe says : ‘ My approach is totally different to his . |
| 16 | Yes in the sense that although he comes from a peasant background originally , it 's a rich peasant background and he himself had er a reasonable education and subsequently erm built on the education that he was given becoming in part self-taught . |
| 17 | Although he refrained from endorsing any of his Democratic rivals , he sought to retract some of his recent attacks upon them , stating that " I have exercised political hyperbole on occasion and called them unelectable , but with each passing day it is clear to me that the only unelectable politician running for office is George Bush " . |
| 18 | With his inherent love of life , he started meeting people socially again , although he abstained from alcohol and cigarettes . |
| 19 | Central to Goldmann 's interest in the sociology of knowledge is the concept of ‘ potential consciousness ’ that he derives from Marx . |
| 20 | As we saw in Chapter 1 , there are unresolved conflicts between Beccaria 's fundamental assumptions about the nature of human beings , the social contract and the functions of punishment , on the one hand , and the particular mode of control that he derives from them , on the other . |
| 21 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 22 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 23 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 24 | You 'd certainly never guess that he suffered from arthritis … that was the chair cracking … not his hip . |
| 25 | In the emotionally charged pieces that he wrote from the war front , Nizan pointed up the inescapable fact that the future of France was being decided on the soil of Spain . |
| 26 | Well I suppose he might have asked some of the fitters , but I doubt it somehow seeing some of the acquisitions that he made from Llanberis when they were closing down there . |
| 27 | This interconnection between the political and the literary was again visible in the reports that he sent from the Aragon front in August 1936 , following the outbreak of the civil war . |
| 28 | Melissa stared at the two slabs of raw meat that he took from the refrigerator and felt her appetite vanish . |
| 29 | He believed that he came from God , revealed God , spoke for God , acted for God , was a channel for God 's grace and salvation . |
| 30 | In the summer of 1905 , Robert Connolly , a groom aged thirty-eight , applied for admission to the casual wards , saying that he came from Wellingborough , and was on his way to London . |