Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Synchronised football — Alton 's Dave Miller shows nice control as he turns away from his Fleetlands opponent . |
| 2 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
| 3 | Now Chancellor Norman Lamont will find himself facing a full-scale sterling crisis when he flies home from his Italian holiday next week . |
| 4 | Like Althusser , Foucault was once called a structuralist , but although he shows great interest in structures ( including the structures of thought and of ‘ discourse ’ in different ages ) he differs significantly from both Althusser and other struc-turalists , often being described consequently as ‘ post-structuralist ’ — and ‘ post-Marxist ’ and ‘ post-modernist ’ as well . |
| 5 | In this respect at least , he differs noticeably from other high-profile corporate denouements on the evening of Thatcher 's day . |
| 6 | He rides away from Queen Isabella in hopeless fury , rides day and night , and when his mule dies under him he shoulders his ridiculous gipsy patchwork bags , their rowdy colours muted now by dirt ; and walks . |
| 7 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
| 8 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 9 | He stands aside from the path and is warned that he tramples on sown seed . |
| 10 | He says apart from drill in the sense of head-counts , turn your back to the blast area and sitting on the ground covering your eyes and so on — none whatsoever . |
| 11 | When he does n't know about something he says so from the beginning and does n't try to waffle round it , ’ says another colleague . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll tell my husband the moment he arrives home from … the moment he arrives home . |
| 13 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 14 | For printing , he uses a wall-mounted De Vere enlarger , with which , to get the size , he shoots literally from ceiling to floor — with many pairs of worn jeans to prove it . |
| 15 | He passes speedily from the absurdities of haute cuisine to the shortcomings of folk cookery , and deals a swift right and left to those writers whose reverent genuflections before the glory and wonder of every least piece of peasant cookery-lore make much journalistic cookery writing so tedious . |
| 16 | If he acts solely from self-interest , then there are good reasons for expecting him not to participate in the democratic process . |
| 17 | he hangs apart from the two strong women , |
| 18 | Instead he sings lightly from the shower and emerges as my perfumed tart , all luscious and freshly steamed ready for my eventual use . |
| 19 | ( " he is not old but he suffers terribly from gout " ) . |
| 20 | ‘ He suffers greatly from gastritis . ’ |
| 21 | . He travels home from work he sits down are you fucking me about a bit ? |
| 22 | In the hullabaloo , he creeps away from the row of houses , silhouetted against the night sky . |
| 23 | The significance of Simmel 's work is that he breaks away from one of the most predominant tendencies in the grounding of Hegel in social analysis : that is , the suggestion that we can separate off the positive side of sublation from the negative side of externalization as rupture . |
| 24 | He jumps away from his own mouth , going nowhere . |
| 25 | He draws together from the Bible four strands in divine guidance which , taken together , pro-vide a confident basis for action , and avoid excessive recourse to that overworked claim , ‘ The Lord told me to do such and such . ’ |
| 26 | He changes slowly from messing Lennie around and playing stupid jokes on him , to treating Lennie as a friend , a companion , but someone he must protect from his own strength and stupidity . |
| 27 | The patient is taught to lift his arm by gripping it behind the elbow with his other hand , drawing it gently forwards and up keeping the elbow straight , palm facing upwards , as he leans forwards from the hips . |
| 28 | Moreover in Scale 2 he moves away from using the language of progressively numbered stages to formulate his thinking about the nature of contemplative experience . |
| 29 | The way he moves freely from the Pip talking to Magwitch on his death bed , |
| 30 | His shoulders are broader than he had supposed , he notices as he walks away from himself ; his bottom sticks out less . |