Example sentences of "from [Wh adv] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew , from how he had said , " there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life , " that he felt none of the revulsion she did . |
| 2 | He was rescued from breathtaking rent rises by Cornelissen , from where he continues to supply artists and calligraphers . |
| 3 | The place from which he rose and to which he descended at the limits of earth and Underworld was the primeval ocean , from where he had emerged , which was the god Nun , the father of the gods . |
| 4 | García had been in hiding since the April coup , taking refuge in the Colombian embassy in Lima from where he had made public appeals for popular resistance to Fujimori . |
| 5 | ‘ What a disgusting thing to do , ’ she said aloud , as she walked through the silent house , picking up two items of Nick 's clothing from where he had flung them almost into the utility room . |
| 6 | On returning to the surface , he carelessly looked away from where he had placed the briar and a snake ate it , whole . |
| 7 | Retrieving his hat from where he had left it , he hurried out . |
| 8 | He bathed and dressed in his evening silks , then settled in the chair beside the carp pond , picking up the Hung Lou Meng , the Dream of Red Mansions , from where he had discarded it earlier . |
| 9 | Besides , her arms were still on fire from where he had lifted her and her nipples still burned from that brief contact with his chest . |
| 10 | " The hurt was beginning from when he had stood unmoving when I put my arms round him , but I drove myself through it . |
| 11 | His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next . |
| 12 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 13 | She saw Ross Aldridge , whom she knew slightly from when he 'd processed her shotgun licence application , and wondered for a moment if the rumour was true about how he and his wife had moved to the area a few months after their baby had died . |
| 14 | He had taken a couple of square inches of rock cocaine from wherever he had hidden his supply and was chopping it with his knife on to Trent 's shaving mirror . |
| 15 | Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions . |
| 16 | perhaps be home soon from wherever he 's gone |