Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] from his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Col James Bradshaw said Alan Jackson , who mysteriously vanished from his shop in Barnard Castle town centre , had given him three cheques but all had bounced . |
| 2 | POLICE are looking for an antiques dealer who mysteriously vanished from his Barnard Castle home last month . |
| 3 | They also removed from his house a large amount of material , including copies of petitions signed by Belgrade intellectuals , copies of the ‘ Petition of the 2,011 ’ , and various letters . |
| 4 | He rarely heard from his mother , but he rang her each Christmas morning , wherever he was , and on her birthday , and he sent her maybe a dozen postcards a year . |
| 5 | ‘ So I see , ’ she muttered , waiting while he gently removed from his neck the clinging arms of a laughing woman who had plastered herself to his front . |
| 6 | The reference section he already knew from his work on local history — a long , narrow room , darker than the rest of the library by reason of the heaviness of the books and their respectable bindings . |
| 7 | He still smarted from his treatment at the military prison , but realised that he must try to control his violent nature if he was to amount to anything . |
| 8 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 9 | The Empire Crusade continued in existence ( indeed its symbol still decorates the front page of the Daily Express ) , but like many of Beaverbrook 's enterprises , it quickly faded from his attention and that of the country . |
| 10 | At the sixth congress ( 1986 ) he formally resigned from his party posts , continuing as an " adviser " to the central committee . |
| 11 | There were occasional stark outcrops of rock and dark pools like tiny versions of the lochans he dimly remembered from his homesite . |
| 12 | To them , an approach to their daughter when she was still in mourning was ‘ indelicate ’ , a word he now heard from his mother . |
| 13 | A secret that , like you , he even kept from his partner . |
| 14 | He then took from his pocket a filthy blue handkerchief , reversing it so that his small audience could examine both sides . |
| 15 | He then resigned from his employment in accordance with the terms of his employment contract and brought an action against his former employers relating to commission payments . |
| 16 | The husband , feeling deprived of the care he previously had from his wife , and sometimes carrying her projected envy , is left even more envious than he otherwise would be . |
| 17 | ‘ I walked on the paint , ’ Carrie said , but his face was almost purple by now and the veins stood out on his forehead as he half rose from his chair . |
| 18 | He half rose from his seat but at that point the waiter arrived with a coffee Sandison had forgotten he had ordered . |
| 19 | He recently retired from his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire after 25 years . |