Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | In both cases the decider ends up where he started from . |
| 7 | As the weather was nice I transferred the goldfish to my garden pond where he stayed from May to September . |
| 8 | ‘ Which means we can find out where he called from , ’ said Golding . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | With his inherent love of life , he started meeting people socially again , although he abstained from alcohol and cigarettes . |
| 12 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 13 | He looked younger close-up than he had from a distance . |
| 14 | On balance , Williams probably gained more than he lost from his attempt to bring — and keep — together the separate traditions of Marxism and British cultural criticism , though as Parrinder has shown in a sensitive discussion of Williams , he made needless difficulties for himself by abandoning the concept of literature . |
| 15 | When Philip Schrag ( 1971 ) became director of the New York Department of Consumer Affairs , he soon realized that companies could easily delay criminal prosecution cases , so he moved from a ‘ judicial model ’ of control to a ‘ direct action ’ model . |
| 16 | Sir Gregory had no intention of admitting that he had given way to his wife 's insistence that Jennifer must go , so he refrained from giving Harry any sort of answer . |
| 17 | Once he jumped from a roof and managed to land on the soft top of a passing van . |
| 18 | Again , he bowed his head to the child , and when she 'd run off , he tapped again on the wall , and when the boy from the cafe appeared , he handed him the bird and asked him to keep it in his cellar for coolness until he returned from Riba on the train that evening , after he had collected the rent . |
| 19 | In Skipp [ 1975 ] Crim LR 114 ( CA ) , the accused was not guilty of theft of two loads of oranges and one of onions until he deviated from the correct route . |
| 20 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 21 | We had a very bad trip , needless to say , and we saw very little of Sam until he emerged from his cabin at Oban looking very much the worse for wear . |
| 22 | Promoted rear-admiral in 1963 , he became Admiral Superintendent , Rosyth , until he retired from the Navy in 1966 . |
| 23 | The archiepiscopal and clerical contribution to these reforms was very largely limited to issuing further decrees of excommunication against Gaveston , if he returned from this third exile , and against violators of the Ordinances . |
| 24 | He lived in a world of fire and smoke , and was permanently black , as if he came from hell . |
| 25 | It had been as if he came from another , alien world , beyond her experience or comprehension , a glamorous , glittering man who made her think of diamonds , so hard and sharp were the edges of his personality . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll mosey on down now , ’ he said , now sounding as if he came from Alabama rather than Texas . |
| 27 | The legislature voted itself sweeping powers to remove Mr Yeltsin if he deviated from the constitution and cancelled a referendum on whether the parliament or president should have the primacy in Russia . |
| 28 | At times the sounds seemed so close he could have reached out and touched them but if he moved from his spot everything fell silent . |
| 29 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |