Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] from his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 2 | It is a wise man who learns from other men 's mistakes , but a wiser man who learns from his own . |
| 3 | The English striker , who scored a sensational opening goal in the 2-1 victory over Leeds United at Elland Road , believes Rangers have nothing to fear from his former club . |
| 4 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 5 | Thereafter the sees were filled ; Sidonius himself returned to Clermont , where the chief opposition to him came from his own clergy . |
| 6 | Has he forgotten , within the past hour and a half , the belly laughs that he got from his own Back Benchers with his stories of social security fraud ? |
| 7 | He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck . |
| 8 | Gould , it appears from his own references , was too busy collecting specimens to engage in an attempt to reach a remote part of the river . |
| 9 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 10 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 11 | Moreover , he learned from his own experience that the most profitable truths were not the finer details of theology but the great essential teachings of Christianity . |
| 12 | The man is a rogue , he stole from his own firm and now that he is serving time in Swansea Prison , I could never allow him near you , let alone marry you . ’ |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman is merely trying to raise obscure scares about our proposals when he knows from his own visit to the association that the policy is extremely popular with all the principals and that his statement — that the colleges would be given back to his friends in Labour councils — was greeted with widespread dismay there . |
| 14 | Father Peter watched , even as he sipped from his own bowl . |