Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	He moved away into the night and Hari watched until he had disappeared from sight , then she closed the door .
2	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 .
3	Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth .
4	Since he 'd progressed from feet , to wheel-power ,
5	That date was ‘ discovered ’ by early Roman historians , men who also incorporated the well-known Greek legend that the city was founded by Aeneas after he had escaped from Troy .
6	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 ) .
7	Rain could not understand why , when he had heard from Rosie all there was to know .
8	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 .
9	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 .
10	The antisemitism in Vienna made his appointment to a university professorship difficult , but as he had married when he had returned from Paris in 1886 he needed to make a living .
11	When he got exhausted from parish work , and felt unwell , a fear would darken him , that the demon , seemingly exorcized , might return .
12	We did not therefore send off the telegram he had drafted to Molotov , more especially as he had received from Eden a cold and almost minatory minute just before the Cabinet began .
13	As he has shifted from opposition to support for the Vance-Owen plan , so has Serbian television .

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