Example sentences of "from his [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llewelyn plucked the pen from his secretary 's hand , and swept the remaining letters from before him . |
| 2 | Then he used a trick from his swordmaster 's repertoire . |
| 3 | Michael Banks it always was who gazed grimly at the enemy submarine from the bridge , Michael Banks who ignored the smoke pouring from his Spitfire 's engine as he trained his sights on the alien Messerschmidt . |
| 4 | Within days a number of voluminous , ornately-carved armchairs arrived from His Excellency 's residence ! |
| 5 | What decided Saad Rashid to steal half a million dollars and seek a life of exile in a country reviled by his homeland was the telephone call from his cousin 's wife . |
| 6 | As a result , the labourer has no view down the vista of which , from his master 's point of view , he forms the conclusion , his windows being so arranged that he can not overlook it . |
| 7 | K ! sdra yelped involuntarily as the tip of the sword pricked a bead of blood from his adam 's apple . |
| 8 | Viktor Oshchenko , a Russian diplomat in Paris who defected to the West , has refused to see officials from his country 's London embassy . |
| 9 | They put out in this feather-light saucer of a boat from his nephew 's yard only just below the limits of Aurae Phiala , transport downstream in the spate being rapid and easy — for experts , at least — and the return journey much simpler by portage . |
| 10 | Shut up therein , he would be detached from his Warden 's forces and unable gravely to endanger the town , for the castle was outside the strong walls . |
| 11 | His wife was telling him to saddle up and steal a fresh batch of cattle from his neighbour 's herds . |
| 12 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 13 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 14 | His greatest , his only concern was to ensure that she stayed away from his sister 's husband . |
| 15 | Billy pulled away from his friend 's arm and made towards the empty yard . |
| 16 | The other evening I went to pick up my other son from his friend 's house . |
| 17 | With great self-restraint , he did not grab the rod from his friend 's hand . |
| 18 | Jonathan 's father , Stephen Whitley , 38 , who had been draining petrol from his friend 's car , died nine days later . |
| 19 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 20 | It was apparent from his wife 's continuing rampage that much pent-up animosity against her husband was coming out , and the crash of a glass ornament warned him that there was probably more to come . |
| 21 | The tokens were charms from his wife 's bracelet . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nothing had struck him as out of the ordinary apart of course from his wife 's news about the Rector , communicated to him around tea-time . |
| 24 | That did n't amount to much and most of it was second-hand , picked up from his wife 's artless prattle and staff-room gossip . |
| 25 | Jonathan Probyn stood to gain a substantial sum from his wife 's death . |
| 26 | She resembles closely the ‘ buxom Welsh cousin named Florence , who was probably eight or nine years my senior ’ , so described in The Childhood , with whom he spent ‘ the most blissful hours ’ in country walks from his grandmother 's Swindon home to Shaw or Lydiard when he was ten or eleven . |
| 27 | The distance from his grandmother 's house was just over a mile . |
| 28 | Oliver was dashing in blue serge , Samuel Pipkin pumpkin-like in large enveloping flannel ; Lord Beddington rivalled Sid in black drawers , though it is doubtful whether they were made from his grandmother 's skirt . |
| 29 | But by 1979 he was selling enough stock from his Mum 's garden shed to move into the Wanneroo premises . |
| 30 | When he could hear no more sounds from his Mum 's and Dad 's room , he opened his door . |