Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 2 | Berger 's race was ruined by electrically-related gearbox problems , which caused him to start from the pit lane , and then a resultant overheating engine , which caused his retirement after four laps . |
| 3 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 4 | Seeing his opportunity , Khalil Ullah Khan rode up to Dara and advised him to dismount from his war elephant and ride over to take charge of the wavering left wing . |
| 5 | A post-mortem examination showed he died from head injuries and stab wounds . |
| 6 | A post mortem examination report showed he died from poisoning by carbon monoxide due to inhalation of fumes . |
| 7 | She spun into the bathroom and locked the door , smiling to herself as she heard him leap from the bed , too late to catch her . |
| 8 | He thought he heard him chuckle from the shadows once , but his eyes could not penetrate the gloom . |
| 9 | Then we heard him shouting from the depths : Is anybody there ? he was telling us he had broken both legs , and there was a lot of blood . |
| 10 | And I heard him read from your notes that you were an only child , with no brothers or sisters . |
| 11 | If Smike were to play in a drama that required him to hide from someone , the pain of suddenly being found might hurt , but not with the rawness nor with the permanence of actuality . |
| 12 | She watched him disappear from view , then stood for a moment , forcing herself to breathe deeply and evenly . |
| 13 | She watched him climb from the bed and put on his dressing gown . |
| 14 | Almost got him disbarred from entry to the Navy . |
| 15 | I 'm sure it was Jan egging him on that got him expelled from the Rainbow Crche . |
| 16 | Disenchantement with the policy of that union led him to resign from it and to join another union , Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff ( ‘ A.P.E.X . ’ ) |
| 17 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know what made him steal from his employer all those years ago ? ’ |
| 19 | When the King was a boy , rebels from the West Country made him flee from the city whilst the pretender , Perkin Warbeck , actually laid siege to Exeter . ’ |
| 20 | I met him returning from one of the Penn ponds with the largest pike of the year swinging by his side and a look of sheer elation on his face . |
| 21 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 22 | She felt him recoil from her . |
| 23 | It was just that the man he went to see kept him waiting from nine o'clock until almost ten . |
| 24 | In 1839 Wellington persuaded him to resign from the Duchess of Kent 's household and go abroad for a time . |
| 25 | Addled by the speed of events which sent him scurrying from The Hague , the erstwhile British ambassador , Sir Neville Bland warned that : |
| 26 | When Sir Oswald appeared on the steps , the crowd surged round him and I saw him struck from the right . |
| 27 | Armed with such views , Mosley entered upon a turbulent political career which saw him move from being the Conservative MP for Harrow in 1918 to , after several political adjustments , becoming Labour MP for Smethwick in 1926 . |
| 28 | A period in the engineering department saw him promoted from senior mechanical engineer to head of mechanical engineering before he was appointed head of facilities for BP 's northern district which included the Buchan , Beatrice , SWOPS , Clyde , Thistle and Magnus upstream activities . |
| 29 | Battered , bruised and broken , Ralph Baughan is now back at home recovering from the vicious attack which saw him tipped from his wheelchair and repeatedly smashed with a wooden bar ; all for £10 . |
| 30 | His reputation , style and personal charm enabled him to recover from serious mismatches , such as the ill-advised moving from ITT to RCA of Maurice Valente , who lasted a mere six months in his new job . |