Example sentences of "[verb] from his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reported in-depth information about his sex life that they gleaned from his first and current wives , their mothers , neighbours and any other informant . |
| 2 | The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte . |
| 3 | Tufnell took nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs , as Sri Lanka moved smoothly to 140 for one in reply . |
| 4 | The bowlers then found no difficulty in maintaining the lack of momentum as the second day in Colombo ended with Phil Tufnell again struggling for form , taking nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs . |
| 5 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 6 | He stressed there was no one else involved in the break-up which comes just days after comic Jim Davidson revealed he was splitting from his fourth wife . |
| 7 | An individual who voluntarily quit from his last job is estimated to have a 64% lower chance of obtaining an offer in Models I and 2 , ceteris paribus , compared with only 38% less in Model 3 . |
| 8 | Richard was expelled from his first school in Cheltenham because his behaviour was too disruptive . |
| 9 | the claim is hard to substantiate , not so much because of Nietzsche 's professed lack of " literary ambition " ( a somewhat disingenuous profession in any case ) , but for want of any decisive evidence in , for instance , the copious private notes surviving from his first years at Basle . |
| 10 | Samuel jumped , distracted from his next address on the beauty of the old Assembly Rooms . |
| 11 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
| 12 | Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post . |
| 13 | Waqar slipped four byes under Moin , and Ramprakash at last scored from his 20th ball . |
| 14 | Mallet 's third factor , job security , follows from his first two points . |
| 15 | Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Having learned from his first assignment that the general effectively controlled the hostage situation in Beirut , Coleman now came to realize that , in a broader frame but in the same sense , Kenaan also controlled the nature and scope of narco-terrorism itself — ; or , at any rate , could do so when it suited President Assad 's purpose . |
| 17 | He had apparently lost his fortune through business failures and was claiming legal aid in an action over his 1990 divorce from his second wife Sarah . |
| 18 | They are a genuine substitute for the talk and shared companionship that was missing from his first year at Oxford . |
| 19 | As such he is a natural verse-speaker , as we see from his first appearance ( I.ii.321ff. ) and from the soliloquy cursing Prospero during the storm ( II.ii.1–17 ) . |
| 20 | I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years . |
| 21 | Despite all the fraternal banqueting , Khrushchev had returned from his first visit to Peking in 1954 and told his colleagues ‘ Conflict with China is inevitable . ’ |
| 22 | Deng retired from his last official post ( Chair of the State Council Military Commission ) in 1990 , but in his role as " elder statesman " he probably remains the supreme power-broker . |