Example sentences of "he [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he did n't forget the man he had beaten , and to whom he acknowledged America owed a debt : ‘ I want all of you to join with me tonight in expressing our gratitude to President Bush for his lifetime of public service , for the effort he made from the time he was a young soldier in the second world war , to helping to bring about an end to the Cold War , to our victory in the Gulf War , to the grace with which he conceded the results of this election tonight in the finest American tradition . ’ |
| 2 | He crept from the room to the shadowed corridor , tip-toed past the attic door to the little corner where the banister curved into the wall . |
| 3 | The Government have made clear their opposition and abhorrence for the fatwa to which the hon. Gentleman referred , but he differs from the view of his colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench if he wishes to stop trade or perhaps impose an embargo on trade with Iran or , indeed , any other country . |
| 4 | Erm would the convenor say erm what he understands from the statement of faith and the statement of faith alone erm to be the teaching on the atonement that is , wh what are we taught about the atonement from the statement of faith ? |
| 5 | ‘ And what must we not say to Feargal ? ’ he asked from the doorway . |
| 6 | He led from the front the campaigns for : |
| 7 | Like the others he failed from the Centurion corner , so tried to gain entry from the right . |
| 8 | That 's a note he got from the Editor the other day , giving him the sack . ’ |
| 9 | That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them . |
| 10 | Adam could afford it because of the money he got from the sale of Wyvis Hall and later from the sale of the London house he bought with the money from the sale of Wyvis Hall . |
| 11 | And whether he changes his system , ploughs his moorland , reseeds his pasture , increases his stocking rate , drains his bog and fertilises his meadow is strongly influenced by the advice and grant-aid he receives from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) . |
| 12 | The most dramatic difference in the two pictures as seen by the remote observer is in the nature of radiation he receives from the object . |
| 13 | The buyer of the contract has made 100 profit which he receives from the seller of the contract . |
| 14 | All he had done was what she had told him to do and when he phoned from the motorway to tell her he 'd done it she 'd gone mad ! |
| 15 | He may have found service under the Protectorate more congenial than that of the Commonwealth ; in 1653–4 he moved from the navy to the central executive , becoming assistant secretary and then clerk of Oliver Cromwell 's council and treasurer of the protector 's contingencies . |
| 16 | Then he moved from the centre of the room towards Franca , who moved quickly aside , and sat down on the chair which she had vacated , and leaned his head back against the wall and closed his eyes . |
| 17 | Fifteen minutes later he moved from the window , tore up some pages , sat looking at the scraps , and then began to write again . |
| 18 | He moved from the fireplace . |
| 19 | erm He drew from the Bible at least one maxim , I think his grandmother was also in favour of it but he certainly was , ‘ Do not , or is it , Never follow a multitude to do evil . ’ |
| 20 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 21 | He writes from the perspective of later years when the dons of Magdalen were anything but congenial society to him . |
| 22 | One , he has from the start recognized your talent ; and two , he is in love with you . ’ |
| 23 | He peered from the screen . |
| 24 | He desisted from the attack , and began to withdraw . |
| 25 | After external examination of the pubic region and vulva , the doctor will pass a speculum into the vagina and take the various samples that he needs from the vagina and cervix . |
| 26 | Her shots tore off one man 's ear and wounded another man in the buttocks as he fled from the pub . |
| 27 | A JOYRIDER was captured on video as he fled from the scene of a hit-and-run accident . |
| 28 | A BURGLAR who left his snarling rottweiler behind when he fled from the law launched a midnight raid on a police station and nicked it back . |
| 29 | As soon as he finished his speech , he fled from the Chamber like a fly-by-night quack doctor , disappearing before his patent medicine is tasted . |
| 30 | Did Humphreys suffer his major injuries when he fell from the disc jockey 's platform at the Hippodrome , or in the streets later on when he fled from the ambulance and was restrained once more ? |