Example sentences of "from his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He disappeared from his yacht off the Canary Islands and his body was sighted in the water the next day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Olympic Gold medallist threw 9.99 metres from his wheelchair at the Sunshine games in Florida . |
| 5 | He was given a leg to help him get him from his wheelchair to the toilet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Stalin dated his revolutionary skills from his experiences among the disaffected oil workers there . |
| 9 | Does this disposition discharge the debtor only from his liabilities at the time the will was made or also from interest accruing subsequently ? |
| 10 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 11 | Biggins was rudely interrupted from his thoughts by the jarring of the front middle and rear turrets firing in unison . |
| 12 | Utterly determined on success , he adopted a dandyish nonchalance and seemed to run the College from his armchair in the Senior Common Room when in fact he frequently undertook paper work late into the night . |
| 13 | From his armchair in the home counties |
| 14 | He sent an extract from his memo to the officer commanding the Middle East Commando on 10 May , requesting the transfer of Captain Schott and the trained men . |
| 15 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 16 | Flew from his nest in the roots . |
| 17 | The gipsy put the knife to work and Putt 's body arched as a pain unlike anything he had ever known spread from his groin to the whole of his body . |
| 18 | These healing acts follow directly on from his teaching about the Kingdom . |
| 19 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 20 | From his reading of the dialectic , James felt forced to conclude that the necessity for a vanguard party as an agent of social revolution was over . |
| 21 | From his investigations into the divisions that the fighting produced within the village communities of Wiltshire , Somerset , and Devon , David Underdown concluded that ‘ the distribution of support for the two sides in the western counties shows how strongly Church and King were associated with the old festive culture ’ . |
| 22 | Cantor 's need for such a definition had arisen around 1872 from his investigations concerning the possible uniqueness of representation of functions by trigonometric series . |
| 23 | It was financed by the Duke of Portland and built to carry coal from his mines in the Kilmarnock district to Troon harbour . |
| 24 | Hill admitted too that his father would have been more than surprised to have seen him in action in Monaco three decades on from his supremacy in the 1960s . |
| 25 | It had sprung from his activities in the housing movement , but was run on straight commercial lines , providing an ‘ alternative ’ removals service and producing a nice sideline in salvaged Victorian fireplaces which were sold to the new rich . |
| 26 | From his response to the huge volume of encrypted data that Coleman was sending twice a week to his DIA number in Maryland , Donleavy was interested in his reports , not just for their own sake , but as a means of cross-checking the official inter-agency pooling of information by the DEA and CIA . |
| 27 | In 1710 Prince Eugene ordered that all soldiers found more than a hundred paces from his army on the march and more than a thousand from it when it was in camp should be hanged . |
| 28 | Dorothea paused , cup in hand , thinking of Hallam , sun-tanned from his hours in the garden deck-chair , reading , reading . |
| 29 | ( N.S. ) 709 the applicant had been expelled from his fellowship by the provost and fellows of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 30 | The chemist drew a chair from his dispensary at the rear of the shop and put it down beside the soaps and talcum powders , the bath salts and the loofahs . |