Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still managed to get up the stairs in the pavilion to help launch Berkshire 's new sponsorship , but then perhaps he thought that the name of the sponsors — the Head Partnership — was far enough removed from his own problems to be of no concern . |
| 2 | From 1823 he produced a series of plates illustrating his discoveries , largely engraved from his own drawings , entitled The Durobrivae of Antoninus . |
| 3 | Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood . |
| 4 | He added that he now felt more detached from his former girlfriend , and that he was already beginning to regard their relationship as belonging to the past . |
| 5 | Thus at Inkberrow Richard Russell 's ‘ lease by year ’ is valued at £1. 3s. 8d. , and Henry Woodwar 's ‘ lease for years ’ at £1 — clearly distinguished from his own property , which was valued separately at £1. 10s . |
| 6 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 7 | There is nothing discreditable in a bailiff appropriating to his lord 's use his own products , e.g. to brew from his own barley , to make cloth and linen from his own wool and flax , feed his horses from his own produce . |
| 8 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |
| 9 | But he is old , deeply unpopular , and increasingly isolated from his own party . |
| 10 | From a child 's viewpoint , his style and his forgiving of mistakes , his ability to explore the origin of false assumption and deduction ( doubtless springing from his own learning process ) , was a powerful illuminator of the path of learning . |