Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | My insomnia became chronic whenever Dana stayed the night , simply because I could not take my eyes away from his sleeping form beneath the bedside lamps . |
| 2 | She could n't seem to drag her eyes away from his familiar figure . |
| 3 | He refused to join Mike Gatting 's Ashes tour to Australia in 1986-87 , saying he did not wish to spend four months away from his family . |
| 4 | Barefoot , she moved with the natural sinuousness of her race , and looking beyond her , Loc saw Jacques Devraux lift his eyes momentarily from his plate to follow the swaying movement of her hips as she walked away from the table . |
| 5 | David will have to take 3 months off from his job as a teacher at a local school . |
| 6 | He wrestled to control himself , but the faint hope of convincing Mr Graham propelled the words irrepressibly from his lips : ‘ Actually , ’ he said as his boss opened the door , ‘ our banks have done rather well out of the debt crisis … ’ |
| 7 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
| 8 | Hill admitted too that his father would have been more than surprised to have seen him in action in Monaco three decades on from his supremacy in the 1960s . |
| 9 | George was ever-present for nearly three seasons , became only our second post-war goalkeeper to put together a run of 100 consecutive League games ( John Jackson was the first ) , while his hundred appearances straight from his debut was the first achieved by a Palace player for over a quarter of a century . |
| 10 | One can piece his ideas together from his mammoth output , but there is no single source from which to develop a definitive statement of the role of political action in capitalism . |
| 11 | Up in the ‘ Fish Tank ’ is an area set aside for the Inlay Operator , still many years away from his grander title of Electronic Effects Designer . |
| 12 | The youngest was a Spanish cabinboy who had run away a few years before from his vicious captain , the oldest a maroon from Benin who had fled a plantation on an island to the north : he had stowed away in a pirate ship that had stopped to draw water on Oualie . |
| 13 | Cleese , 52 , fell for her after his divorce two years ago from his second wife , film director Barbara Trentham . |
| 14 | Adam had only picked the car up three days earlier from his boss at the Congleton , Cheshire , firm where he had just started work . |
| 15 | He had no weapons apart from his hands and teeth , but he moved surprisingly quickly , dodging the monster 's spear thrusts , and lashing out with his hands only to have his blows intercepted by the monster 's shield . |
| 16 | During the summer , he spends 33 days apart from his wife and family at Balmoral . |
| 17 | There was an ancient church called Fablan Fawr a few hundred yards away from his house , so Beverley called his new house Fablan Fawr too . |
| 18 | The boy was killed instantly and Ballantine was seen later crying a few yards away from his body . |
| 19 | A long ways away from his 20 for the past four seasons with Sheff . |
| 20 | ‘ Here ; I 'll give you a carry-coal-bag , ’ Rory said , turning his back to the boy and putting his arms out from his sides as he crouched . |
| 21 | ‘ Madam , I confess myself deeply grieved that you should judge one an enemy who has ever served you and yours faithfully and to the utmost of his ability , ’ he said sorrowfully — and the prince , watching the scene with avid interest , expected to see tears well from his eyes . |
| 22 | And she leaned forward , pulled his hands away from his face , placed her mouth on his in a kiss of such passion that they drowned in it , and then , with a sudden twist , she was away from him , out of the arms he had placed about her , running down the corridor towards the outer door . |
| 23 | He took the photostat copy of the Illustrated Police News out of the roll-top desk where he had kept it together with the original photograph ; under a pile of old negatives away from his wife 's prying eyes . |
| 24 | She 's probably enticed a man with a beard and a lot of snotty children away from his wife , and she 'll be shacked up with them in a mobile home on the outskirts of Llangollen , cooking beans and magic mushrooms and playing the flute and moaning about the artificial restrictions of society . ’ |
| 25 | The vast mountaintop panorama was forgotten as the focus of the world shrank to six inches away from his nose . |
| 26 | On tour : security agents and officials shadow Secretary of State Warren Christopher as he takes a few moments off from his talks in Cairo yesterday to pay a visit to the Sphinx |
| 27 | Then , Gerd is killed instantly , a look of intense agony on his face , as the Render bursts forth from his body . |
| 28 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 29 | THERE has been much comment in Blackpool about the way John Smith claps his hands , elbows out from his side so that his arms form a bar across his chest , hands thundering into each other with short , sharp smacks . |
| 30 | A few doors down from his own room sat a Co-ordinator of Intelligence whose task it was to try and keep MI6 , 5 and the true military organisations from duplicating each other 's efforts and spitting in each other 's beer . |