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

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1 He has also possibly benefited from the personal attacks on him by Mr Bush , such as being dubbed ‘ a two-faced pumpkin from Arkansas . ’
2 It has embroiled Dr Sandage in such controversy that at times he has almost completely withdrawn from the world .
3 He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived .
4 He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted .
5 He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak .
6 He had long since retired from competitive football and like his tragic contemporary , the boxer Benny Lynch , Gallacher only had memories to live on .
7 This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from .
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