Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that , he hopped down from the rock , leaving its previous occupant free rein over the throng . |
| 2 | At ten o'clock he rode out from the Elysée to be greeted by the cheers of the people , and on entering the Place de la Concorde he was saluted by cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ and shouts of ‘ To the Tuileries ! ’ . |
| 3 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 4 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 5 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 6 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 7 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 8 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 9 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
| 10 | He got down from the cab . |
| 11 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 12 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , d' you think he got back from the mission he was on , ’ said Lee , putting his face right up close to the picture . |
| 14 | ‘ I think Yorick wrote that whole page when he got back from the party . |
| 15 | It would be about seven o'clock when he got back from the cricket match with Patrick . |
| 16 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 17 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
| 18 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
| 19 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 20 | On other occasions he drew back from the implications of this argument by not referring directly to the Jews and by arguing that the British army would always obey the orders of the cabinet even if there was a Jewish Minister for War such as Hore Belisha . |
| 21 | Almost a minute of injury time had ticked away when he jinked through from the left to fire an inch-perfect shot just inside keeper Jon Hallworth 's far post . |
| 22 | ‘ He came up from the ranks . |
| 23 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 24 | He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody . |
| 25 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 26 | Then at the appropriate moment , he unfurled a battered black umbrella , shielding his camera as he came down from the car . |
| 27 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 28 | Joe found her there when he came back from the vegetable field . |
| 29 | He came back from the doorway and sat down . |
| 30 | He is 33 , he appears unstoppable , and he is perfectly aware that he came back from the grave . |