Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 32 | Rebecca West , representing the polite world of letters at this proletarian scene of retribution , was being told by an elderly man how he had come back from viewing his grandchildren 's bodies at the public mortuary and heard the voice of the condemned criminal mocking him over the radio . |
| 33 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 34 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 35 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 36 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 37 | He had come in from his dressing room and Eileen was waiting , dressed and ready for the dinner party . |
| 38 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |
| 39 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 40 | Philip Swallow finds the VC 's memorandum , its envelope still unopened , at the bottom of his In-tray , trapped between the pages of a brochure for Bargain Winter Breaks in Belgium which he had picked up from a local travel agency some weeks ago . |
| 41 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 42 | So he had driven down from Edinburgh to intercept the train . |
| 43 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 44 | The plaited bamboo walls curled tightly round a stout frame of beech poles , cut and stripped by Rima with the big bush knife he had brought up from the trade-store when Joseph had run down to tell him the news . |
| 45 | Peter picked up the exercise book and slipped it into the box he had brought down from the loft . |
| 46 | ’ On the north-east corner he asked for a castellated bell tower in which to house the bell he had brought back from Lille . |
| 47 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 48 | He was ostracized after his return by an ‘ electorate ’ which certainly included the 4000 hoplites he had brought back from Ithome , who went on to fight the Spartans hard over thy next decade and a half of warfare ( the First Peloponnesian War , see further p. 39 ) . |
| 49 | On Wednesday , he swallowed his pride , banked Dysart 's cheque and purchased a car with most of what remained from the cash he had brought back from Rhodes . |
| 50 | He had been painted in wonderful Afghan clothes , a tunic and turban of deep blue and red embroidered with gold , clothes he had brought back from the exploits during which he had found Charlotte , the fabulous exploits that had been Alexandra 's bedtime stories every night , every single night in childhood , haunting her sleep with nightmares of cruelty and savagery in wild , barbaric places . |
| 51 | He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day . |
| 52 | Nelson Rowe says he was given his dad 's old kart for christmas when he was five and he 's gone on from there … it 's brilliant good fun and quite dangerous with lots of crashes |
| 53 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |