Example sentences of "[to-vb] from his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the assumption of a single non-standard to standard continuum with RP located at the standard extremity led Macaulay in Glasgow to exclude from his analysis of the ( a ) variable items which belonged to the /a/ class of RP . |
| 2 | The trials and tribulations which beset Piggott after his riding career was over — imprisonment in October 1987 for tax fraud — do nothing to distract from his achievements in the saddle , and never have his skills been better demonstrated than when he won his twenty-eighth Classic . |
| 3 | As he did so , a fine trickle of sawdust appeared to fall from his ear to the floor . |
| 4 | Before the end of Elizabeth 's reign he settled on the Sussex coast , at Offington in the parish of Broadwater , perhaps hoping to profit from his kinship with the local magnate , Thomas Sackville , later first Earl of Dorset [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | Morny was himself a partisan of a Russian rather than a British alliance , but a combination of the Tsar 's refusal to move from his position on the Treaty of 1856 and the Emperor 's fear of offending Britain made the attempt useless from the outset . |