Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing he got called away from his post would there be somebody ready to take his place ? |
| 2 | He nodded to the pile of papers he 'd withdrawn earlier from his briefcase . |
| 3 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 4 | He 'd moved up from shop floor worker to production manager but the firm hit hard times an the receivers were called in . |
| 5 | They reckon there was a load of fallen branches lying under the air shaft before we pushed the guy down it ; according to the young cop who first went down it looked like he 'd crawled out from the middle of the pile . |
| 6 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 7 | When he 'd started regaining his confidence he told us that he 'd taken over from Terry in the endless arguments with David Jacobsen . |
| 8 | He 'd taken over from Hercule Riquard as maître de chai , and he poured his whole life into promoting La Tour Monchauzet wines into a class of their own . |
| 9 | He and Rory had had a drink the night before , and Rory confessed he 'd driven up from Belleeks early to cruise around Cultra and reconnoitre . |
| 10 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 11 | When he walked through the factory gates that afternoon he 'd walked away from everything . |
| 12 | But an intimate dinner at the château was another matter altogether — because this would be the first time she 'd as much as set eyes on him since he 'd walked away from her outside this very room on that awful night . |
| 13 | Rebel was racing after another lamb he 'd steered away from the main flock . |
| 14 | Horowitz nodded as he followed Hendrix out of the cabin , carrying the case he 'd picked up from the Frankfurt villa in one hand , his executive case in the other . |
| 15 | And after he 'd climbed down from Cloud Nine , Brian told me to remind you that Cilla 's new album Through the Years , which does indeed feature duets with Barry Manilow , Cliff Richard and Dusty Springfield , is in the shops now . |
| 16 | Ashton had shouted one last thing at him , but Steven had been too far away , breathing deeply , an expression of triumph on his face , He 'd got away from them . |
| 17 | He had broken through from dramatic playing to a kind of performance , a ‘ presentation ’ , a subtle combination of personal expression and public code . |
| 18 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 19 | We did not tell him how glad we were that he had stayed away from the moor ! |
| 20 | He had stayed away from the whisky . |
| 21 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 22 | Instead , he drove away in the , ran over a kerb , got a flat tyre and kept going — to pick up Vicky Vanderford , whom he had flown in from California . |
| 23 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 24 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 25 | She repeated what he had heard already from the lips of Evans . |
| 26 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 27 | He had travelled there from his home in Cwm-parc , Mid Glamorgan . |
| 28 | He had run away from his home in Chicago when he was fifteen and still bore the scars from the beating he had received at the hands of his father after his parents had discovered he was gay . |
| 29 | He had turned away from her a little and she could not see his face . |
| 30 | Just at the time when they should have been giving most to each other , he had turned away from her , and in its way that had been almost as painful as the loss of her mother . |