Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony had decided not to go out with them , as he felt self-conscious about having to borrow money from his father to pay for drinks . |
| 2 | He had no right to demand payment from his own account . |
| 3 | Thus he is forced to lead a clandestine existence , abandoned only when he occasionally reappears to demand money from his wife . |
| 4 | Hindu worshippers gather round a holy man in order to absorb Goodness from his aura . |
| 5 | In the same year as Jacobson published his experiments , a ‘ failure to replicate , report signed by twenty-three authors appeared in the major journal , Science , and the matter might have rested there but for the fact that it was noticed that the method which Jacobson had used to extract RNA from his rat brains also liberated a good deal of protein and other contaminants . |
| 6 | Duvall settled back against the reception counter as Pearce continued to shake water from his greatcoat , but the others were silent . |
| 7 | But Moses does not show much faith in God 's willingness to fulfil her duties , and sees death as the only way to find release from his burdens . |
| 8 | Bookmakers and officials realised something was amiss and Willett , who had hoped to net £21,000 from his coup , got away with just £1,964 . |
| 9 | The author was John Hull , a secret sustainer of contras and allegedly a facilitator of drug runs ; he kept a ranch on the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border , where his favourite sport was to shoot alligators from his veranda . |
| 10 | Viktor Oshchenko , a Russian diplomat in Paris who defected to the West , has refused to see officials from his country 's London embassy . |
| 11 | He pulled away from them both long enough to wipe blood from his face and to lean on the stair-rail , sucking in deep breaths . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , MEATLOAF is coming to the King 's Hall on December to play tracks from his long-awaited sequel to the blockbuster ‘ Bat Out Of Hell ’ album . |
| 13 | Had she had time to free Tommaso from his changed shape ? |
| 14 | His mother was hunting , his father watching from a rock a little way off , and Creggan was trying to win food from his bigger stronger sibling , another male , who had been born before him . |
| 15 | We are committed , morally and politically , to treating everyone as free , with a right to see things from his own standpoint and make his own decisions . |
| 16 | As a moral imperative , far from being incommensurable with his previous considerations , it merely adds others similar in kind ; he now has to see things from his parents ' viewpoint as well as his own , consider their health and resources , ask himself how much they have done to arouse his gratitude or his rancour , whether his staying would really do them any good , whether he can get on with them without quarrelling , and add all this to the information which he must assimilate before he lets the needle of his internal compass finally settle in the direction of Bali or of home . |
| 17 | There are also signs of early glass works and mine railways , but the chief monument here is the Great Haigh Sough , begun by Sir Roger Bradshaigh in 1652 to drain water from his mines , and one of the oldest such systems in the area . |
| 18 | As long as at least 6,000 valid ostraka were handed in , the man who gained most votes was forced to leave Attica for 10 years , though not in dishonour ( he was still allowed , for example , to draw income from his properties , and he returned a free citizen when his time was up ) . |
| 19 | A conference called by interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed to discuss a new constitution was postponed as groups continued to withhold recognition from his provisional government , formed by the Hawiye-dominated United Somali Congress ( USC , active in central Somalia ) . |
| 20 | The HRD practitioner might want to cite examples from his or her own experience of the fact that ‘ quick-fix ’ changes tend to be just that — first-aid treatments that do not have a base for perpetuation . |
| 21 | Athelstan asked , trying to draw Cranston from his own dark thoughts . |
| 22 | It would have been so good to just sit there and let Luke hold her , to draw comfort from his strength , but how could she do that when he was supposedly in league with the man who had done that to her house ? |
| 23 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 24 | Each young male was likely to adopt songs from his territorial neighbours by imitation , in an analogous way to human language . |
| 25 | Maybe , she idly wondered , as she drew a red biro daisy by the Metropole Hotel , maybe he chooses to be so offensive verbally in order to divert attention from his appearance ? |
| 26 | ‘ One per cent , ’ Chopra repeated , trying to divert attention from his friend . |
| 27 | ( No , I was n't born then ) : at Comdex/Spring in Atlanta yesterday , our man on the spot , Chris Rose was geared to send stories from his laptop straight back to our server — until on deadline , he found all phone lines from Atlanta were busy ( shame on you , BellSouth Corp ) and ended up having to low-tech fax it back using a direct facsimile line . |
| 28 | But in the very same scene Ulysses is left alone with Nestor , and describes how he really intends to entice Achilles from his tent . |
| 29 | But Clifford Barnett , the head of the anthropology department which voted in closed session last week to expel Mosher from his PhD candidature , denies that the department was subjected to any pressure . |
| 30 | Samuel Pipkin tried to keep excitement from his voice ; in truth he was as shocked as any of them at the reality of what in his mind he had longed for . |