Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to him from the " in BNC.

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1 The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor .
2 The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel .
3 He had the whalebone sent to him from the port of Leith from where several whalers operated .
4 Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck .
5 He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch .
6 Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start .
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