Example sentences of "[vb pp] from his [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed , however , to get the rapturous reception he may have expected from his chief apologist on the international scene . |
| 2 | On 6 September 1746 two new French privateers , L'Heureux and Le Prince de Conti , reached Loch nam Uamh and on 19 September the prince was summoned from his impromptu shelter on the slopes of Ben Alder in Inverness-shire , a mere 25 miles [ 40 km ] from Fort William . |
| 3 | Samuel jumped , distracted from his next address on the beauty of the old Assembly Rooms . |
| 4 | Compulsive , selfconscious intellectual , ‘ philosopher ’ no less than ‘ naturalist ’ , he had worked from his earliest years on a very broad canvas indeed . |
| 5 | William was momentarily deflected from his frenetic attack on the meat and two veg , which was doubtless how he described it to himself . |
| 6 | Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point , so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings . |