Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] from his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ai n't gon na tell us they 're only gon na sa , someone gon na lose this because a bloke got sacked from his job for having a Betty Boop tattoo . |
| 2 | The Northern Ireland Minister , Michael Mates , has resigned from his post over the Asil Nadir affair . |
| 3 | ‘ Yet I believe that Satan himself , the Prince of Darkness , has risen from his cauldron in Hell and now stalks this sun-dappled place . ’ |
| 4 | Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop . |
| 5 | As for the safety of the Zairean , I was glad to see that , in his judgment , Mr. Justice Brown said : ’ However , it is at least now clear that no irreversible damage has resulted from his removal on 1st/2nd May ’ — as he has been in touch with his solicitors both from Zaire and Nigeria since then . |
| 6 | The years of training in which Marco has learned from his father to be brave and loyal , to be secret and silent , are now to be proved : he is to be the messenger . |
| 7 | In the middle of this explosion of pop culture , Nicholson had also become a free agent again , having parted from his wife in 1966 , and moved in with his actor friend Harry Dean Stanton at Laurel Canyon . |
| 8 | All I 'm pointing out is that those steps are a hazard , and one which any sane architect would have omitted from his plan from the start . ’ |
| 9 | In any event he would have died from his injuries within hours . |
| 10 | Gandhi 's antipathy to preaching , which was characteristic of the Christian missionary activity he was acquainted with , may have derived from his attitude to mission work in general , but it is more likely that he considered a man 's life to be a more effective testimony to the truth of his religion that his words . |
| 11 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |
| 12 | In spite of his disappointment Hopkins now felt released from his renunciation of poetry , and a succession of exuberant lyrical celebrations of the natural world followed , including ‘ The Windhover ’ and many of his other best-known poems . |
| 13 | He seemed to be a lot more cheerful and appeared to have recovered from his bout of depression of the previous evening . |
| 14 | In sum , then , one can say little more on the basis of the scanty information available than that Molla Yegan appears to have abandoned his official posts by at least 844/1440–1 ; to have returned from his journey to the Hijaz , in company with Molla Gurani , whom he presented at the Ottoman court , not earlier than alter the pilgrimage of 844/1441 but very possibly not much later ; if not to have continued to be a figure of some importance in the state until at least 857/1453 , to have re-emerged as such then , though without , apparently , holding any official post ; and to have died at some time alter that date , perhaps in 878/1473–4 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Eddy 's own interest in the old records from the Royal Greenwich Observatory had developed from his study of the changing level of solar activity as indicated by the numbers of sunspots , or dark spots in its surface . |
| 17 | The ships that had survived were divided , some to continue with the trade that was their life-blood ; the rest thinly spread through the Sudreyar , including Man , where Bishop Hrolf cultivated his souls and his fortifications with equal exuberance and had received from his smith on Holmepatrick , in his scant leisure from illegal coining , a custom-made tunic of chain-mail with the cross of Christ on every ring of it . |
| 18 | A year ago today came the first reports that publisher Robert Maxwell had fallen from his yacht to his death . |
| 19 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 20 | We inspected everything , from the plumbing arrangements to the cornices and architraves , entirely ‘ new ’ ideas which he had gleaned from his trips to Europe . |
| 21 | On the night before , he had watched from his perch on a pile of stones the four verderers ride up to the Tower from the far side of the Waste … |
| 22 | Leese was a veterinary surgeon who had retired from his practice in Stamford in Lincolnshire in 1928 . |
| 23 | The Orthodox Patriarch , Teoctist Arapas , had retired from his post in January 1990 , to return in April [ see pp. 37192 ; 37383 ) . |
| 24 | If my father could look down on our proceedings , once he had recovered from his astonishment at who was speaking , he would be even more surprised by the political symmetry between the two debates . |
| 25 | When the peat-brown eyes fixed on hers again , their level gaze showed he had recovered from his astonishment at seeing her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Despite further negative publicity while in prison Barry had emerged from his period of incarceration claiming that he had undergone a religious rebirth . |
| 28 | In 1691 Martin sold a house in La Couture , which he had inherited from his father in ] 689 , to his brother-in-law Louis Hotteterre , ‘ player of hautboys and other instruments living in the said city of Paris at the end of the Pont Marie Therese ’ ( document 4 ) . |
| 29 | With a story sufficiently English to appease nationalist sentiment and Britain 's only international star , Charles Laughton , in the central role , the picture deployed every lesson Korda had learned from his sojourns in Europe and Hollywood about pleasing an audience . |
| 30 | This Eliot had taken from his reading of anthropology , as would become clear from his later social writings , and he sought to preserve the physical and spiritual bonds of his culture in the city of London . |