Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood began to seep from his hands . |
| 2 | At last Travis started to recover from his surprise , and , Leith realised , his doomed hopes . |
| 3 | Sir Frederick Halliday offered to resign from his position as chair of the Joint Committee for Nature Conservation — a body set up four months ago to supervise Britain 's conservation standards following the break-up of the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 4 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
| 5 | Byrnes began to retreat from his unilateral dealings with the USSR , especially when the limited agreements he had concluded in Moscow in December 1945 were sharply criticized back home as a return to appeasement . |
| 6 | Sarella tried to spin from his grasp , and he let her go as if surprised to see her move so quickly . |
| 7 | A flow of love and light and warmth seemed to move from his hard nearness into her own body . |
| 8 | ‘ Dixie ’ — a nickname said to derive from his swarthy complexion and curly black hair — preferred to augment his income by making bets with bookmakers on the basis of the number of goals he could score in a game ( one goal was evens , two goals 5–2 , and three 10- 1 ) , Sportsmen , especially footballers , had since the 1880s been used on cigarette cards as free advertising for a brand . |
| 9 | At the 1924 Paris Olympics Liddell decided to withdraw from his chosen distance , the 100m as it would have meant competing on a Sunday . |
| 10 | His concern began to spread from his hair to his skin . |
| 11 | As he did so , a fine trickle of sawdust appeared to fall from his ear to the floor . |
| 12 | One 18-year-old insurance clerk from Birchfield explained how he reached a sort of cross-road after his training began to detract from his studies : ‘ I came to the conclusion that my career came first and , at 18 , I had to look at my prospects . |
| 13 | He says it 's a shame John McGregor had to go from his post as Education Secretary . |
| 14 | Now Joyce proposed to exclude from his tuition those pupils whose racial origin offended him and to take very little care about concealing his admiration of Hitler and his total commitment to National Socialism from those who came under his influence . |
| 15 | Steam began to rise from his jersey and shorts . |
| 16 | It is said that after Waterloo , ‘ the fire seemed to vanish from his speeches ’ . |
| 17 | McErlean , 26 , the husband of a former Sinn Fein councillor , was ambushed by Loyalist hitmen as he and his teenage brother drove to work from his home in Dunloy , Co Antrim . |