Example sentences of "[vb infin] from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | NSWRU executive director Gary Pearse will resign from his post at the end of October . |
| 2 | He does know from his preliminary investigation of the accounts that the group is virtually insolvent — and I have his permission to convey his findings to you . |
| 3 | Many of you will know from his days with working initially from Key Street and then at Bletchley . |
| 4 | ‘ And this , ’ Donal added in obvious amusement when Feargal 's eyes did n't once waver from his companion , ‘ is Ellie ! ’ |
| 5 | Then he was swinging out of it , feeling the blood retreat from his head , sensing the ground reach up for his wheels : twisting to see the flag , before he went up and waited his turn to do it over again . |
| 6 | He still wanted her body , there was no way he could disguise that , and she , well , she would have to learn to be content with whatever crumbs he was prepared to let fall from his table . |
| 7 | Immortality and a Godly status are two things that Tamburlaine wants to achieve and he believes this will happen due to his ‘ protection by the Gods ’ , especially Jove : ‘ And shall the sun fall from his sphere than Tamburlaine be slain or overcome ’ . |
| 8 | The confiscation laws are an expression of the maxim that a person should not profit from his or her own crime . |
| 9 | The basic fiduciary duties may be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) The " no conflict " rule : the fiduciary must not place himself in a position where his own interest conflicts with that of his [ customer ] , the beneficiary ; ( 2 ) The " no profit " rule : the fiduciary must not profit from his position at the expense of his [ customer ] ; ( 3 ) The undivided loyalty rule : a fiduciary owes undivided loyalty to his [ customer ] , the beneficiary , and therefore must not place himself in a position where his duty towards one [ customer ] conflicts with a duty that he owes to another [ customer ] . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you know what made him steal from his employer all those years ago ? ’ |
| 11 | Norster , however , would not deviate from his script . |
| 12 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 13 | By accepting whatever property he may inherit from his father . |
| 14 | It would appear from his judgment that the main argument before him on behalf of W. was on the basis of section 8 giving W. an absolute right to refuse treatment . |
| 15 | Pearce was standing in front of him , talking angrily and pointing to those doors as two other men began to push clumsily inside , admitting a gale of icy air that even Cardiff could feel from his position . |
| 16 | Such polarities were evidently valuable aids to several generations of Wölflinn 's pupils who could benefit from his personal teaching as well as the rather more rigid theory in his books . |
| 17 | The Biennale can only benefit from his involvement . |
| 18 | The forfeiture of the literary proceeds can be seen as an application of the maxim that an offender should not benefit from his crime , the application of which has , for example , prevented murderers from collecting the proceeds of insurance for the victim 's death or from inheriting under a will . |
| 19 | Whether Gorbachov 's tattered image at home will benefit from his visit to North America , is increasingly in doubt ; for those here , nothing can hide the failure of his domestic reform programme , and the economic part of that programme was again under debate in the Supreme Soviet . |
| 20 | The word originally denoted the many single days when the labourer might break from his toil to go to mass and celebrate a saint in other , mundane ways ; as , in the dull prose of the twentieth century , on a bank holiday . |
| 21 | If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) . |
| 22 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He may legitimately expect from his field officer detailed knowledge of and familiarity with any discharger or any ‘ problems ’ . |
| 25 | Joel Swanson did not understand , nor did he ever expect to understand , exactly what was going on , but the kind of activity he seemed to be hearing about , in snatches only , was more or less exactly what he 'd expect from his wife 's relatives . |
| 26 | Of course , it could be argued that purpose is not confined to use in a functional sense but also encompasses the enjoyment which the buyer can reasonably expect from his purchase . |
| 27 | Stone closed his eyes , and let the breath ease from his body . |
| 28 | When , in another striking instance , the earl of Carlisle reached the capital in 1664 as ambassador from Charles II , he had a long argument with the official deputed to receive him as to which should first descend from his sledge when they met formally . |
| 29 | He stroked one long finger down her cheek , and she wondered savagely why , even now , she could n't recoil from his touch . |
| 30 | Still cautious , but now feeling the blood drain from his face with shock , Bodie moved quickly into the flat . |