Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas 's son had to decide whether and to what extent he was prepared to diverge from his father 's methods . |
| 2 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 3 | It was impossible to guess from his narrowed eyes and set features what he was thinking . |
| 4 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 5 | Suddenly it was imperative to escape from his disturbing nearness . |
| 6 | But this was Ray Shallows ' kingdom and it was hard to escape from his flood of ecstasy . |
| 7 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , yeah , it 's obvious that Runrig had a good listen to the first Big Country album , you know ? ’ he remarks , archly , and it 's hard to tell from his deadpan tone whether or not he 's joking . |
| 9 | Would it be right to conclude from his remarks also that in place of the stipulations that exist — which are much too rigid and impractical to be accepted — he would allow the co-ordination of deficits by the market ? |
| 10 | For the dying man to lapse into a state of stupor or incoherence was regarded as a misfortune both for him and for those unable to profit from his words , or even , perhaps , from some shared glimpse of the unseen . |
| 11 | Let the Staff College student consider how Harris was able to conjure from his original strength of 374 front line aircraft , and in a few months have some 1,047 aircraft set course for Koln in order to devastate 600 acres of the city ( plus the admirals and generals in Whitehall ) . |
| 12 | Both before and after this decision I was able to benefit from his friendship and advice . |
| 13 | ( Apparently his life is so fast-paced that he was unable to talk from his office ) . |
| 14 | The monarch , it was argued , unable to escape from his burdens by resignation , as a mere minister could , and anxious to pass on undiminished to his heirs what he had inherited from his ancestors , was the safest and most effective possible guardian of the public welfare . |
| 15 | No matter what benefits the salesperson discusses , the buyer may be reluctant to change from his present supplier or change his present model because to do so may give rise to unforeseen problems — delivery may be unpredictable or the new model may be unreliable . |
| 16 | Mr Brown took longer than is usual to recover from his hernia repair . |
| 17 | Branson grew accustomed to the spectre-like figure of Sid Vicious lurching into his office unannounced to steal from his drinks cabinet , or scrounge another £5 or £10 . |
| 18 | The learned judge held not , for the reason that no one is entitled to profit from his own wrong . |