Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] from [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the guts he has shown in resisting government plans for the body he has chaired from 1983 are far from academic . |
| 2 | Throughout his career he has lurched from one extreme to another , noisy then quiet , a prolific goal scorer then a famine victim , a superstar then a substitute . |
| 3 | In four years , he has grown from 16 staff to 40 , and plans to add at least 10 a year for the next three years . |
| 4 | He 'd , he 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 5 | He 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 6 | Had a nice letter from one of the Romanian boys you met very concerned about my job position — he had heard from one of the others who 'd been in London in the summer and saw |
| 7 | He was probably far gone enough not to realise yet that he had jumped from one box into a smaller one . |
| 8 | Her father , ruling duke of Celle ( exchanged for Hanover which he had governed from 1648 ) since 1665 , was not married to Eléonore at the time of their daughter 's birth , but , by military and diplomatic services to the Holy Roman Emperor , he obtained the legitimization of Sophia Dorothea and in 1675 the legal marriage of her parents was permitted . |
| 9 | On Sept. 27 Ceausescu was released from custody for 90 days to undergo medical treatment for chronic cirrhosis of the liver ( a condition reportedly complicated by a stab wound he had received from one of the revolutionary mob moments after his Dec. 22 television appearance ) . |
| 10 | It is a picture indelibly imprinted , Ward 's voice painting it in quiet words , neither excited nor repelled by the horror of it , but simply repeating information he had obtained from one of the books he had borrowed from his Glasgow library as soon as he knew the route he would be taking to Punta Arenas and the Antarctic . |
| 11 | In his later years Pritchard lived in a house called Eyton Turret in Eyton-on-Severn , Shropshire , which he had formed from one of a pair of Jacobean garden buildings in the former grounds of a demolished mansion . |
| 12 | All these duties were administered from a room at Stuart House which he had used from 1928 . |
| 13 | Harry had lost the high , blooming colour he had got from two hours of strenuous play with blunted swords , and was pale now with a bright , wary , aggressive pallor . |
| 14 | He had walked , dishevelled and mud-plastered , out into the square from the coffee shop and thrown at the feet of the Captain those trophies that he had lifted from three different observation posts along the way . |