Example sentences of "[num] [noun] from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going into Cheltenham , Pipe was second in the trainers ' league this season , with 149 winners from his 550 runners , the high numbers of winners and runners testifying to the soundness of his methods and his horses . |
| 2 | Paul Gascoigne has been given the freedom to roam forward , David Platt will be looking to add to his remarkable haul of 12 goals from his last 14 games , and Paul Ince reckons it 's about time he opened his England scorecard . |
| 3 | It was reorganised in 1721 ; and from the 1750s onwards the foreign policies of the monarchy were given greater continuity by a purely personal factor — the very long tenure of the post of Court and State Chancellor , for over forty years from his appointment in 1753 , by Prince Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg . |
| 4 | He usually drew forty pounds from his personal account each week so he must have needed two hundred and fifty for something . ’ |
| 5 | He was only 300 yards from his house . |
| 6 | He had taken a container of 800 barbiturates from his pharmacy and 136 tablets were later recovered . |
| 7 | A BOY of 13 thought to be responsible for a car crimewave sobbed loudly last night as magistrates ruled he should be placed in a secure unit for three months — 300 miles from his home . |
| 8 | A BOY of 13 thought to be responsible for a car crimewave sobbed last night as magistrates ruled he should be placed in a secure unit for three months — 300 miles from his home . |
| 9 | To get his precious bowl of gruel , Issi had walked 30 miles from his village of Lusulas with his father Abdi , 29 . |
| 10 | Raymond Cusick had hoped for six Daleks from his budget but in the end the money only ran to affording four . |
| 11 | Vic , 44 , had just finished a £12-ahead meal with six workers from his typesetting firm when he ordered the doubles . |
| 12 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |
| 13 | We saunter over , and Rufus squats by one of the two parcels and grins coldly , about six inches from his face . |
| 14 | He did not wait for an answer , thrust the radio into a tuft of grass six inches from his face . |
| 15 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |
| 16 | I suggested that he might think of removing the last three syllables from his name , which he did by deed poll . |
| 17 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
| 18 | ‘ On the day Mr Riddle disappeared he drew two hundred and ninety pounds from his private account . |
| 19 | Star Woody wants custody of three children from his 12-year relationship with Mia and claims she is a bad mother . |
| 20 | TENANT Brendan Meehan chased his landlady and three men from his flat , wielding three knives , a court heard yesterday . |
| 21 | A member of any council is entitled to a subsistence allowance only if the place where the duty is performed is more than three miles from his usual place of residence . |
| 22 | Richard Miles led a quiet life … and used to go for a drink a couple of times a week with friends at the Kings Heads in the village of Eastington , about three miles from his home . |
| 23 | After firing some 80 rounds from his legally owned 7.62mm SKS Chinese semi-automatic rifle , Frankum shot himself dead . |
| 24 | A former students union treasurer has denied stealing forty thousand pounds from his members.The court was told that |
| 25 | ‘ Be my guest , ’ Trent said and handed him the eight thousand dollars from his back pocket . |
| 26 | So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed . |
| 27 | Since leaving in March , he had set up a private school in St. Peter 's Parsonage , with about sixty pupils from his old school . |
| 28 | The bad news is he weighs just under 30 stone at press time , down fourteen stone from his previous weight . |
| 29 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 30 | He moved on quickly , then , and paused by a parked car , fifty yards from his own , darkened house . |