Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to be two hundred miles away , where he had come from — even in that bleak house in that wasted corner of the sleet-driven estate . |
| 2 | Davide , after returning from America , had lost his bump of locality for his native place ; when the plan showed a turning one way , he missed it , or found he wanted to walk back where he had come from , or go in another direction altogether . |
| 3 | When you told me that Stapleton had owned a school in the north of England , I checked on him and where he had come from . |
| 4 | And , although he had benefited from the publicity surrounding the death and from the cheapness of the star 's replacement , he would also have benefited from Michael Banks 's drawing power , had he survived . |
| 5 | The Grenadiers and Chasseurs , finding that the town was impassable , crossed the little River Dyle to the west , and it would seem that he became separated from them . |
| 6 | But there without doubt were the elusive twin spires of Saigon 's cathedral that he 'd seen from far off , stationary now and clearly visible , standing sentinel over the wide , tree-lined avenues . |
| 7 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 8 | It was , therefore , with exaggerated haste that he undid his black tie , pulled the white shirt over his head , substituted a red T-shirt and a pair of old Norfolk drab cords that he 'd salvaged from his father 's wardrobe . |
| 9 | And now that he 'd escaped from that awful prison , come he would , she knew that as certainly as she knew daylight would follow darkness . |
| 10 | She usually found those , though , just as she usually found any cash or letters that he 'd hidden from her . |
| 11 | He took out the keys that he 'd brought from the office back home , and opened the door . |
| 12 | The reason for their excellent wickets , he said , was that he 'd changed from Mendip loam to Surrey loam . |
| 13 | Sighvat 's Knútsdrápa indicates that he had sailed from England to deal with the threat posed by Olaf and Anund Jacob , and mentions his visit to Rome . |
| 14 | They were no doubt relieved , as Theo definitely was , that he had escaped from the clutches of ‘ that woman ’ . |
| 15 | It might be more accurate to say that he had escaped from him . |
| 16 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 17 | In August Turberville returned to England , claiming that he had escaped from prison . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On autopsy it was established that he had suffered from a very rare brain condition in which the thalamus progressively degenerated . |
| 21 | The crux of Sting 's accusation , however , was that he had suffered from ‘ inequality of bargaining power ’ which is to say , that he had not had proper legal advice when signing the deal , and had been taken advantage of by Virgin . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | He was probably far gone enough not to realise yet that he had jumped from one box into a smaller one . |
| 24 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |
| 25 | The doubts about Mr Lamont 's survival grew after it was disclosed that he had withdrawn from the panel on BBC TV 's Question Time programme tomorrow , with Mr Clarke replacing him . |
| 26 | When pressed upon the issue , Hawke admitted the deal , but claimed that he had withdrawn from the arrangement in December 1990 after Keating had made " treacherous " remarks to the press about his leadership . |
| 27 | ‘ Rumours that he had profited from the Barings Crisis of 1890 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He firmly denied that he had emerged from the meeting empty handed . |
| 30 | The Tretyakov Gallery would release hundreds of the works that he had given from its stores , and then the museum of the Russian Avant-garde would open . |