Example sentences of "from his [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Maxwell , controlling shareholder in Mirror Group Newspapers ( MGN ) and in Maxwell Communication Corporation ( MCC ) , died on Nov. 5 after falling from his yacht off the Canary Islands . |
| 2 | He disappeared from his yacht off the Canary Islands and his body was sighted in the water the next day . |
| 3 | Doug Jones had at this time , been split from his mates of the Wolverton Company and was on a working party with a group of Queen Victoria Rifles men , detailed to drain some marshes in Poland . |
| 4 | The Olympic Gold medallist threw 9.99 metres from his wheelchair at the Sunshine games in Florida . |
| 5 | He was given a leg to help him get him from his wheelchair to the toilet . |
| 6 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 7 | Does this disposition discharge the debtor only from his liabilities at the time the will was made or also from interest accruing subsequently ? |
| 8 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 9 | Biggins was rudely interrupted from his thoughts by the jarring of the front middle and rear turrets firing in unison . |
| 10 | From his armchair in the home counties |
| 11 | He sent an extract from his memo to the officer commanding the Middle East Commando on 10 May , requesting the transfer of Captain Schott and the trained men . |
| 12 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 13 | Flew from his nest in the roots . |
| 14 | The gipsy put the knife to work and Putt 's body arched as a pain unlike anything he had ever known spread from his groin to the whole of his body . |
| 15 | These healing acts follow directly on from his teaching about the Kingdom . |
| 16 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 17 | From his reading of the dialectic , James felt forced to conclude that the necessity for a vanguard party as an agent of social revolution was over . |
| 18 | From his investigations into the divisions that the fighting produced within the village communities of Wiltshire , Somerset , and Devon , David Underdown concluded that ‘ the distribution of support for the two sides in the western counties shows how strongly Church and King were associated with the old festive culture ’ . |
| 19 | It was financed by the Duke of Portland and built to carry coal from his mines in the Kilmarnock district to Troon harbour . |
| 20 | It had sprung from his activities in the housing movement , but was run on straight commercial lines , providing an ‘ alternative ’ removals service and producing a nice sideline in salvaged Victorian fireplaces which were sold to the new rich . |
| 21 | In 1710 Prince Eugene ordered that all soldiers found more than a hundred paces from his army on the march and more than a thousand from it when it was in camp should be hanged . |
| 22 | Dorothea paused , cup in hand , thinking of Hallam , sun-tanned from his hours in the garden deck-chair , reading , reading . |
| 23 | ( N.S. ) 709 the applicant had been expelled from his fellowship by the provost and fellows of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 24 | The chemist drew a chair from his dispensary at the rear of the shop and put it down beside the soaps and talcum powders , the bath salts and the loofahs . |
| 25 | Penry straightened from his inspection of the stove . |
| 26 | Peter Horbury sat beside her , still looking tousled from his exertions among the rocks . |
| 27 | ‘ ( I Keep A ) Close Watch ’ , a Cale standard of great beauty , is treated like an old friend , a version that he gently teases from his keyboard with the skill of a poacher tickling a trout . |
| 28 | Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine . |
| 29 | And when he 's fishing close inshore , watching the signals from his huer on the cliff path and ordering his boats to cast their nets to enclose the shoals of silvery fish that dart and move just beneath the surface , you look down from two hundred feet and you think to yourself , perhaps , perhaps … |
| 30 | ‘ And Stephen was released from his promise by the Church — ’ |