Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In August Turberville returned to England , claiming that he had escaped from prison . |
| 2 | It does n't actually say I I I was just looking , it does n't s seems to go up to September nineteen eighty six but not to say that he had escaped from prison . |
| 3 | After almost two hours at the wheel yesterday , Senna limped away from his car , the only obvious sign that he had suffered from brake trouble during the last quarter of the 73-lap race . |
| 4 | Given this , Whitelocke was lucky to escape prosecution at the Restoration ; to the credit of both , he and Charles II made their peace when Whitelocke returned some royal manuscripts that he had saved from plunder and lectured the king about Welsh , which he said was ‘ his Majesty 's more ancient native language than English ’ . |
| 5 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 6 | The later wildness and eccentricity of his style were completely out of character with his conventional , moral and industrious way of life ; his obituary reported that he had died from overwork . |
| 7 | The experts would say that he had died from suboxia — oxygen deficiency brought about in this case , Wycliffe believed , by a virulent poison . |
| 8 | His real mother complained to social services that he had disappeared from home and might have been glue sniffing or taking drugs , it was alleged at Mold Crown Court . |
| 9 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 10 | He moved away into the night and Hari watched until he had disappeared from sight , then she closed the door . |
| 11 | Asked by his doctor if he had recovered from flu , he said that he was fine but one of the clocks was going badly , and would the doctor come and have a look at it as soon as it was possible . |
| 12 | Cruz 's house arrest and dismissal were overturned by the Supreme Court on Dec. 29 , but he remained suspended from office . |
| 13 | There is a story in the Acts of the Apostles which describes how Peter , after he had escaped from prison , went to the house of Mary , the mother of John Mark ( Acts 12:12 ) . |
| 14 | She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way . |
| 15 | When he had vanished from sight she expelled a long sigh and allowed the mask to slip away from her face , slowing returning to her towel and lying down flat on it . |
| 16 | When he got exhausted from parish work , and felt unwell , a fear would darken him , that the demon , seemingly exorcized , might return . |
| 17 | As he has shifted from opposition to support for the Vance-Owen plan , so has Serbian television . |