Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | McQueen was accompanied on location by Ali MacGraw , whom he had met on The Getaway , and whose presence he admitted saved him from going round the bend . |
| 2 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
| 3 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 4 | DeFreitas played a daffy stroke : he tried to pull one from Cairns which was not short enough . |
| 5 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 6 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 7 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 8 | He hastened to remove himself from the danger . |
| 9 | He 'd heard nothing from them for over three months , and was forced to assume that they were either dead , or prisoners of the Nazis . |
| 10 | He 'd collected her from Kalkara early this morning , to take one of his charter yachts for a test sail . |
| 11 | George Michael was on with Jacqueline Bisset and he confessed that she had been his pin-up and he 'd loved her from afar for years . |
| 12 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 13 | He 'd made it from Oxford . |
| 14 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 15 | The sight of the handbag she 'd caught up as he 'd carried her from her flat and which he had tossed on to the bed gave her the glimmering of an idea . |
| 16 | ‘ My lord said that he 'd brought you from Gloucester , ’ volunteered Ellen , setting a trencher of bread and fruit on the table , ‘ where you 'd been held since your father 's death . |
| 17 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 18 | He 'd learned it from his grandparents . |
| 19 | Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop . |
| 20 | I did n't believe he 'd got anything from the card . |
| 21 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 22 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 23 | The following day he arrived to collect me from the hotel where I had spent the night . |
| 24 | In his characteristic phrase , " I am their leader , I must follow them " — but he determined to follow them from the front . |
| 25 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |
| 26 | So what if he did want something from her , something she knew quite well she had n't got ? |
| 27 | ‘ Luftwaffe pilot , but even he had to do it from Canada into the States before they were in the war . ’ |
| 28 | He thought he had loved her from the moment he set eyes on her . |
| 29 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 30 | The solution suddenly came to him , and he had to control himself from shouting out " Eureka " . |