Example sentences of "[subord] his [noun] [verb] from the " in BNC.

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1 Until his body recovered from the effects of the psychic blast this was his only means of defence .
2 Just in time before his Mum turned from the cooker , he jumped off the roof .
3 When his dinner arrived from the trattoria — he had told her long ago he preferred their food to hers which suited her perfectly well — it was eight minutes late .
4 A SOCCER referee collapsed and died during a match as his son watched from the sidelines .
5 As his mind rambles from the boy to the jersey to Ellen ( who knitted it ) , to the sea and the Borough ( via the fish Grimes is going to get rich by catching ) , back to Ellen and the future life they will never lead because Grimes can not escape his past — as his mind rambles in this way , so the music probes our sympathies by constant allusion back to the variations in the interlude .
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