Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |
| 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 | On September 17 he failed to return from the ‘ gallant and historical ’ night attack on Cherbourg . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Northampton did win a scrum against the head on their line but they could not escape and a ferocious tackle by Pepper knocked Foale backwards as he tried to drive from a scrum . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 10 | He was restrained as he tried to rush from the dock before the judge left the court . |
| 11 | He was hurt as he tried to transfer from the Tayjack rig to the tug Torbay Endeavour off the coast of Sunderland . |
| 12 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 13 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 14 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 15 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He looked as though he 'd stepped from the pages of a history book . |
| 18 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 19 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 20 | a man stuck ‘ jewels ’ he 'd gathered from the beach |
| 21 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I have , have n't I , ’ he had agreed cheerfully , clearly pleased at the speedy , efficient response to the phone calls he 'd made from the Meadowses ' ranch house the day before . |
| 23 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He took out the keys that he 'd brought from the office back home , and opened the door . |
| 26 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 27 | When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week . |
| 28 | The horror remained on their faces , but for some reason he 'd disappeared from the scene . |
| 29 | It was pink , one he 'd had from a baby . |
| 30 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |