Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walsh announced his decision to retire from the government on April 2 ; although he gave no reasons , he had earlier suggested that the government lacked sufficient political will to confront the country 's grave economic problems . |
| 2 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 3 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
| 4 | He succeeded Corneliu Coposu , who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post . |
| 5 | Obtain as much information as you can about his argument , his willingness to shift from the present position . |
| 6 | The Friar frowned , checked his ho-hoings and allowed his eyes to flicker from the enemies in front . |
| 7 | It was during the course of his acrimonious exchanges with the Constituent Assembly on New Year 's Day 1946 that de Gaulle evidently made up his mind to resign from the presidency . |
| 8 | Earlier Romantic interests in dream , haunting and death were revivified by Odilon Redon 's lithographs and drawings and transposed into a mawkish fascination with human decollation and disembodiment ( a prescient subject of much Surrealist interest later ) , witness perhaps of his desire to escape from the strictures of the body where only material limitation and disease existed — the concerns of eschatology , sexuality and mysticism certainly haunted Redon as they do so much Symbolist thought . |
| 9 | One of his most famous illusions was his ‘ Levitation ’ , which he first performed in 1867 , when he caused his wife to rise from the stage . |
| 10 | Given his abilities and his natural desire to go into space , it should have been a logical extension of his career to graduate from the Air Force into the Space Programme . |
| 11 | Mr Browning was no less solicitous but she read exasperation in his advice to turn from the Gospels to the Psalms , ‘ which may have a calming influence ’ . |
| 12 | At one point , instead of offering orders or advice , he jumped off his bench to hollow from the sidelines : ‘ What the ***** going on out there ? ’ |
| 13 | He could see Lucier waiting behind the pageant in his serpent 's costume for his cue to emerge from the Mouth of Hell and tempt Eve with the forbidden fruit . |
| 14 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 15 | Waiting for his prey to rise from the hollow and dash across open ground . |
| 16 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 17 | What made Whitaker ideal for Doctor Who , though , was his ability to write from the heart ; to put into words notions and understandings of wonder . |