Example sentences of "from his [noun] [that] [pers pn] " 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 | You 're not taking anything from his wife that she wants . |
| 3 | But Jinny could tell from his voice that he knew the answer already , and when Doyle replied it was with a nod . |
| 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 | This time , however , the physicist could see from his instruments that it had not been totally successful . |
| 7 | Heseltine has an awesome reputation in Whitehall for generating loyalty and enthusiasm among his civil servants — he is , in fact , accorded the sort of political devotion from his mandarins that he should expect from his daughter . |
| 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 | Yet this man found himself unloved , in that he demanded so much from his friends that he could not find a close , enduring relationship to satisfy him . |
| 11 | I understood from his conversation that he was a druggist , and he thought that I was a druggist , too . |
| 12 | And the typing college was a come down , I can tell you , from his idea that she would go into a profession ; he 'd even thought of university . |
| 13 | Mr Maclean 's reliability as a bank manager can be judged from his admission that he was not very good at mathematics , hence the mistakes in calculating interest on Mr Singh 's alleged account . |
| 14 | Moran was so taken aback by the way Sheila had seized the envelope from his hand that he stood in amazement . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Vinelott J. , in the passages from his judgment that we have cited , used the adjectives ‘ wholly ’ and ‘ plainly . ’ |
| 17 | It was an exquisitely warm afternoon in Aswan-just the sort of day for which the swallows fly so far , When the Shah walked slowly down from the plane , looking drawn and exhausted , Sadat stepped forward to kiss him on both cheeks — despite advice from his officials that he should be more circumspect with the fallen King . |
| 18 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 19 | She could tell from his reaction that he found nothing there . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We reached the low white picket-fence , the only insulation from his subjects that he cared to have . |
| 22 | He will need my attention and as I note from his record that he is also a Roman Catholic by religion , he may also need the ministrations of Father Martin here . ’ |
| 23 | He and Hank were upbraided , reviled and screamed at , until , without uttering a word in retaliation , Hank took his jacket out of the hall alcove and strode silently out of the front door , followed by a shriek from his mother that he was as disgusting as his father ; like father , like son . |
| 24 | He moved him a little and saw from his face that it was someone else . |
| 25 | No-one could have told from his face that he was absolutely livid with Sukey , but he did n't want a row , which would upset Daisy and gee Perdita up before the interview . |
| 26 | I knocked on his door and when he answered I could tell from his face that he 'd been crying . |
| 27 | But the eyewitness who reported the scene noted that all could see from his face that he was greatly irritated by the French counsellor who had attempted to alter the terms of his homage and exact a fealty oath . |
| 28 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 29 | Max had heard from his office that I was seeking to speak to him and his friendly response was to telephone me himself . |
| 30 | In the case of Foucault , it derives from his belief that it is through ‘ discourses ’ , ensembles of beliefs , concepts , organising ideas , that our relation to reality is organised . |