Example sentences of "from his [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain ran down the harsh planes of his face and dripped from his chin on to the slick oilskin . |
| 2 | A figure darted from his cover on to the road . |
| 3 | She slid her hands from his cheekbones back into the thick waves of his dark , silken hair . |
| 4 | There was the case of an Essex player who smeared Vaseline from his eyebrows on to the ball and thus altered its flight . |
| 5 | It is surely only a matter of time before a tray falls from his hands on to a lady or gentleman 's lap . |
| 6 | By then a stream of colourless but pungent lemon-scented oil was dripping from his hands on to the floor and the cotton-wool . |
| 7 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 8 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 9 | The ash fell from his cigarette on to the table-cloth . |
| 10 | ONE of Liverpool 's top radio DJs was axed from his show today after a live bust-up on air with a listener . |
| 11 | Arnold Quainoo , had been removed from his post shortly after the September 1989 alleged coup attempt and his responsibilities assumed by Rawlings [ see p. 36967 ] . |
| 12 | Francis Pym , who had given a somewhat hesitant performance at the Foreign Office in the Prime Minister 's view , was removed from his post immediately after the election . |
| 13 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 14 | Her eyes travelled from his face down to the mug which he held in his two hands . |
| 15 | Riding through the battered gates , unarmed , with nothing but the richness of his furs to identify him , James of Lusignan looked like a King , with the youth gone from his face along with the high-spirited waywardness . |
| 16 | He breaks into a wide smile , and a dried bogie snowflakes from his nose down to the ground . |
| 17 | There simply is n't any dramatic , conflict in a story about a purported villain who wears a Beatle cap , drinks from a huge glass with fish in it and gazes out from his island home on the great blue sea as he waits for his pursuers , a pair of handsome would-be lovers who sing songs like ‘ We could of , we should of , perhaps we can . |
| 18 | Peter took the bar over from his father shortly after the war . |