Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | His appreciation of Chinese food was nurtured at his mother 's table and also at his uncle 's Chinese restaurant where he worked part-time from the age of 11 . |
| 2 | His name implies that he came originally from Upper or Lower Brailes ( Warwickshire ) , near Shipston-on-Stour . |
| 3 | That is why it does not surprise me in the least to hear from my hon. and learned Friend about the letter that he received yesterday from Mr. Beck 's erstwhile cellmate . |
| 4 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 5 | We know that he kept away from the moor , so it 's unlikely that he waited at the moor gate every evening . |
| 6 | Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third . |
| 7 | Then , in the late summer of 1931 , he writes that he passed definitely from this position of ‘ rational meism , into a fall acceptance of the Christian dispensation . |
| 8 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |
| 9 | All the same , it is not obvious that he differed much from his English predecessors in this sort of area , for the Anglo-Scandinavian background outlined in the Introduction again becomes relevant here . |
| 10 | Asked what made him so positive , he said : ‘ No sooner was the body found than he ran away from home . |
| 11 | His voice petered out and he rolled away from her and lay on his back , his hands clasped behind his head , staring woodenly at the ceiling . |
| 12 | In that final quarter , though , Wooderson had a lot of people to pass — on the inside , of course , for this was a gentlemen 's race — and he zipped smoothly from one to the next to the finish line . |
| 13 | And he went straight from this place , to catch his plane ? ’ |
| 14 | His eyes were watering as he started it , and he looked away from me again , towards the deserted white tables around us . |
| 15 | Surely United could n't do it , and in the eighty seventh minute , Paul Simpson ran clear and he shot home from close range . |
| 16 | And he walked away from the manor as though he had arrived there as empty-handed , half-naked and alone as when he left . |
| 17 | Uncle Tommy , his only brother , used to tell me , in jocular fashion , that the only difference between Daddy and himself was that Daddy went into work and he ran away from it . |
| 18 | The coroner said Michael 's head hit the chair and he died instantly from a fractured skull . |
| 19 | He successfully resisted treatment , and he returned home from the clinic describing himself , and I use his own words , as being ‘ fantastically ill ’ . |
| 20 | Gunfire rattled against his pectoral shields , and he staggered backwards from the blast . |
| 21 | The engine roared smoothly to life and he pulled away from the kerb . |
| 22 | And he turned away from her to face his desk again , as if everything had been settled for the moment . |
| 23 | And he turned away from her smile . |
| 24 | At about 21.00 , nightfall came to his aid , giving him nearly six hours of darkness , and he slipped away from his enemies . |
| 25 | Just to think of what he would say if he came home from a Council meeting and found an American soldier sitting in his parlour made Carrie 's stomach shrivel . |
| 26 | His voice sounded thick with hunger , deep and growling as if he wanted more from her . |
| 27 | ‘ I want to tell you , ’ he said to his wife but he veered away from the effort which would dim it , tangle , it , and he chose something banal and not what was in his mind . |
| 28 | But he looked far from confident facing an Indian legspinner , specially drafted in for the occasion by manager Keith Fletcher . |
| 29 | He ‘ s had a couple of bumps , as well , one of which has left a long and jagged crease in the body almost from headlight to tail-light ; that one was n't his fault , but he drove away from it fast to avoid the questions that would certainly follow . |
| 30 | The pilot could n't lift the plane higher , for its engine had petered out , but he glided away from the deceptive green expanse of bog as he made further deep circling movements earthward . |