Example sentences of "from his [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris [ Stocks ] was a little surprised to say the least when he arrived home from his holiday to be told that The sun newspaper had been trying to contact him , asking him to go to London to play a practical joke on the king of practical jokers Chris Evans . |
| 2 | ‘ His biggest problem was always behavioural and emotional , resulting from his frustration at being treated as a difficult or educationally backward child . ’ |
| 3 | They appear from his plan to be attached to the house by a passage on the viewer 's right , but there is no sign of them at all in his elevation . |
| 4 | But he rose from his sick-bed to be on hand when the committee reached their expected decision . |
| 5 | This last decade he had spent in Vienna , obtaining sufficient funds from his family to be able to settle down and marry the only Russian girl amongst his acquaintances . |
| 6 | Gav 's under pressure from his missus to be home earlier while Paul 's wife is about to walk out . |
| 7 | Gav 's under pressure from his missus to be home earlier while Paul 's wife is about to walk out . |
| 8 | Gav 's under pressure from his missus to be home earlier while Paul 's wife is about to walk out . |
| 9 | He became the first from his club to be capped , in the Second Test of the recent tour of Australia in Hastings ' injury absence , and he played for Scotland ‘ A ’ against Spain in Madrid on September 12 . |
| 10 | He resented being called from his office to be reprimanded . |
| 11 | The years of training in which Marco has learned from his father to be brave and loyal , to be secret and silent , are now to be proved : he is to be the messenger . |
| 12 | Glenn Clements , a burly policeman who took a break from his job to be in charge of the Pinnochio group , says : ‘ I 've got four kids and I get far more pleasure taking these children on holiday than I do my own . ’ |