Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 2 | People who will say to other people I know Jesus I know that he loves us , I know that he forgives us , I know that he is risen from the dead , and that the good news is that we will also rise from our own deaths . |
| 3 | There is then a risk that the buyer , before he has paid and therefore before he has acquired title , sells and delivers the goods to a sub-purchaser who is unaware that he is buying from someone who has no title . |
| 4 | What Stephen says and what Stephen thinks begin to merge because the punctuation mark that indicates ‘ now my character speaks ’ is missing.Joyce does use the dash , however , to show that he is moving from descriptive narrative to direct expression . |
| 5 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 6 | It appears to me , therefore , that he is estopped from saying that there was any valid consideration for the defendant 's promise . |
| 7 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 8 | Will the right hon. Gentleman say what support he is receiving from other G7 countries for his recent endorsement of a rouble stabilisation fund ? |
| 9 | He is separated from wife Becky and their baby son . |
| 10 | He is separated from his wife but he has tried to abduct his daughter . |
| 11 | He finds an icon for his teaching in the Old Testament account ( Exodus 19 ) of Moses ' ascent of Sinai where he is separated from the people and priests by a cloud in the darkness of which he encounters God . |
| 12 | The most important family — at least from man 's point of view since he is descended from it — were the Omomyidae . |
| 13 | He is descended from Mbatian . ’ |
| 14 | And three-times 1930s champion Perry , in a letter from the American hospital bed where he is recovering from a triple heart bypass operation , added : ‘ To the youngsters who will use this centre , I say , use it with pride . |
| 15 | The City players collected almost £1,000 to enable Lisa Johnson to join Lake in Los Angeles where he is recovering from a transplant operation on his knee . |
| 16 | Anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public or if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence , or he chooses not to do so , must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed . |
| 17 | When he is snatched from under their noses , they join forces with the Japanese police to recover their man . |
| 18 | Although part of nature in that he is made from dust , he is nevertheless created in the image of God and as such possesses many of the qualities of Godhead : mind , will , emotions , conscience . |
| 19 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |
| 20 | ‘ It would be a travesty of sporting justice if he is barred from the winter tour of India and Sri Lanka because he spoke out and told the truth . |
| 21 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler , plans to study in the United States for a career as an airline pilot after confirming yesterday that he is to retire from first-class cricket , as reported in Monday 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 22 | ( 6 ) if he is prohibited from being a Director by any order made under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 . |
| 23 | ( 6 ) if he is prohibited from being a Director by any order made under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 . |
| 24 | Much later , a mere half century ago , the author Alan Devoe makes a similar comment : ‘ One day , often with no forewarning whatever , he is gone from the house and never returns . |
| 25 | He is hiding from someone , too , but he is not an escaped prisoner . |
| 26 | Thus he is dismissed from the story . |
| 27 | No Botham and no Larkins , but Dean Jones sat champing at the bit and it will be a great pity if he is prevented from emptying the nearby chemistry laboratories with the prospect of his thrilling strokeplay . |
| 28 | Even if there is no impairment in an individual 's ability to become aware of a hazard to safety , there may be some reason why he is prevented from taking the necessary avoiding action . |
| 29 | During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised . |
| 30 | As a son he is to learn from his father ( 2 Tim . |