Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from his " in BNC.

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1 It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds .
2 ‘ At least Mike has n't run away from his past .
3 Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip .
4 The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze .
5 Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before .
6 In fact , if he had n't looked up from his coffee and spotted her in the doorway , Caroline might have returned to her room and waited until she was sure he 'd gone .
7 She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father .
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