Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlton immediately came under fire , his decision to withdraw Brady from the fray seen to be cavalier and grossly insensitive . |
| 2 | Typical was the case of John Welshman of East Looe , charged in 1686 for ‘ sending his servant with his horse to fetch earth from the Down without licence ’ . |
| 3 | He was abducted by three men and beaten up when he went with his girlfriend to collect clothes from the house where she used to live in Trowbridge , Wilts . |
| 4 | Chad was a northern Angle and undoubtedly orthodox in matters of the tonsure and the date of Easter , but his readiness to accept consecration from the British bishops reveals a continuing failure in Oswiu 's entourage to appreciate the importance of canonical rectitude . |
| 5 | Chief among those dismissed and allegedly involved in scandals was Pedro Paulo Leoni Ramos , Secretary for Strategic Affairs , who was accused of using his influence to win contracts from the state oil firm PÉTROBRAS for companies run by personal friends . |
| 6 | Both of them treated the case as one in which there was an implied threat by the defendant to deprive the plaintiff 's clerk of his right to take extracts from the parish register for no charge ; and both appear to have concluded that , in the circumstances , although that threat was made before the plaintiff 's clerk obtained the extracts he needed , nevertheless it was causative of the payment which was therefore recoverable on the ground of compulsion . |
| 7 | Irrespective of a man 's rank , it was not thought below his dignity to receive payments from the King for military service , and the wages payable varied with the rank of the individual . |