Example sentences of "from his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped his watermelon slice and raised bulging white eyes from his issue of Spook Stories magazine . |
| 2 | A year ago today came the first reports that publisher Robert Maxwell had fallen from his yacht to his death . |
| 3 | Robert Maxwell , controlling shareholder in Mirror Group Newspapers ( MGN ) and in Maxwell Communication Corporation ( MCC ) , died on Nov. 5 after falling from his yacht off the Canary Islands . |
| 4 | He disappeared from his yacht off the Canary Islands and his body was sighted in the water the next day . |
| 5 | ROBERT Maxwell 's widow Betty last night emphatically ruled out a pathologist 's theory that her husband had jumped from his yacht off Grand Canary . |
| 6 | Doug Jones had at this time , been split from his mates of the Wolverton Company and was on a working party with a group of Queen Victoria Rifles men , detailed to drain some marshes in Poland . |
| 7 | The Olympic Gold medallist threw 9.99 metres from his wheelchair at the Sunshine games in Florida . |
| 8 | He was given a leg to help him get him from his wheelchair to the toilet . |
| 9 | In his book " Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist " ( 1954 ) he mentions these visits , quoting from his diary for " September 24 , 1936 , hawking in the afternoon with a gyr-falcon which the late Ernest Vesey ( pen name of Ernest Lewis ) had brought back from Iceland . " |
| 10 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 11 | The only thing he could do was make sure that Trentham received no praise from his pen for what had taken place on the battlefield that day . |
| 12 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 13 | From his experience with London Irish , he praises highly the coaching standards in top-class English clubs . |
| 14 | Drawing from his experience of Japan , Johnson ( 1984 : p. 8 ) considered that this ‘ means the initiation and co-ordination of governmental activities to leverage upward the productivity and competitiveness of the whole economy and of particular industries in it … |
| 15 | He spoke from his experience at Nissan where he has been responsible for developing and implementing Nissan 's philosophy and pratices and for ensuring that the business and personnel policies are totally integrated . |
| 16 | He must know a lot about shop-girls from his experience in his industrial parish . |
| 17 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 18 | ( His views derived from his experience in two roles , as a Professor of Geology at Edinburgh University , and as the editor of scientific journals ) . |
| 19 | ( His views derived from his experience in two roles , as a Professor of Geology at Edinburgh University , and as the editor of scientific journals ) . |
| 20 | For some time before Rylands v. Fletcher the courts had been concerned with the extent of a person 's liability for the escape of an accumulation of water from his land during the normal course of mining operations . |
| 21 | One stable owner at Evesham in Worcester is having to clear ragwort from his land by hand . |
| 22 | President Bush also came away from his talks with Mr Gorbachev in Malta convinced that the Soviet leader recognised that German reunification may turn out to be unavoidable , but that it must come as part of a wider European endeavour to end the post-war division of Europe . |
| 23 | President Bush also came away from his talks with Mr Gorbachev in Malta convinced that the Soviet leader recognised that German reunification may turn out to be unavoidable , but that it must come as part of a wider European endeavour to end the post-war division of Europe . |
| 24 | ‘ From his talks in Dumfries … that you … in Vienna … had been , were , engaged to — I believe you mentioned the name to Mrs Crump . ’ |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 27 | The partnership between Rolls and Royce , motor engineers , led to the foundation of Rolls Royce Ltd. , in 1906 , and in the following year , the Territorial Army was established — also the English Boy Scout movement , which was the brainchild of Sir Baden-Powell , from his experiences at Mafeking , during the later Boer War . |
| 28 | Stalin dated his revolutionary skills from his experiences among the disaffected oil workers there . |
| 29 | My usual greeting from the cook from his kitchen on one side of the small restaurant . |
| 30 | Does this disposition discharge the debtor only from his liabilities at the time the will was made or also from interest accruing subsequently ? |