Example sentences of "from his [noun] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Newry and Armagh will be aware from his constituency that there have been problems with the preliminary investigations . |
| 3 | You 're not taking anything from his wife that she wants . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink . |
| 5 | She knew from his voice that he had seen the news too , and she had never been so glad to hear a friendly voice . |
| 6 | But Jinny could tell from his voice that he knew the answer already , and when Doyle replied it was with a nod . |
| 7 | This time , however , the physicist could see from his instruments that it had not been totally successful . |
| 8 | It was clear from his success that he understood his adopted country extremely well , a fact underlined by his marriage in June 1979 to a wealthy New York Jewess , Susan Adler . |
| 9 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 10 | Moran was so taken aback by the way Sheila had seized the envelope from his hand that he stood in amazement . |
| 11 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 12 | Vinelott J. , in the passages from his judgment that we have cited , used the adjectives ‘ wholly ’ and ‘ plainly . ’ |
| 13 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 14 | She could tell from his reaction that he found nothing there . |
| 15 | Well , very briefly , the ideas was Freud in his early practice was getting stories from his patients that they had somehow been sexually interfered with or abused or something of the kind when they were very young , often by an older male friend of the family , a relative , or even their father and initially Freud thought these reminiscences were literally true . |
| 16 | We reached the low white picket-fence , the only insulation from his subjects that he cared to have . |
| 17 | I knocked on his door and when he answered I could tell from his face that he 'd been crying . |
| 18 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 19 | Perhaps his greatest failing was his eternal , often unfounded , optimism , which seemed to stem from his belief that he had been chosen by God to ‘ do much good and benefit ’ to his country . |
| 20 | When she went into the kitchen , Philip was there , and she knew from his manner that he had something to say . |