Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is up to your supplier to get his money back from the manufacturer . |
| 2 | He has now demanded his money back from the Newport Advertiser in Shropshire , which has apologised . |
| 3 | That dying-duck look as he struggled to get his case down from the rack ! |
| 4 | The other team was the Levitt team with No 1 Libor Krejci , No 2 Prince Abdullah , who had flown his ponies in from the Argentine , and played extremely well , scoring several of the goals ; No 3 Marcelo Caset from the Argentine , and Lord Charles Beresford at back . |
| 5 | The TV reporter swung his eyes back from the window and trained them on the superintendent in a long , calculating stare . |
| 6 | He is to bring the men under his command in from the west . |
| 7 | He pulls his foreskin back from the great bruised rose . |
| 8 | Then she picked his file up from the desk , pulled out a needle and threaded it . |
| 9 | The governor had moved his guests back from the illuminated pedestal to show the line and glazing of the Ming vase to its best advantage , and because he had turned his head in their direction to explain a point , he did n't see the gibbon streak across the marble floor on all fours . |
| 10 | The first body , found in the Thames , was discovered accidentally by a bargee , who had been poling his way up the river and had been more than mildly surprised when he had brought his pole up from the river bed to find a sodden brown parcel on the end with a baby 's arm sticking out . |
| 11 | ‘ All the rumours are that Jerry 's been bringing his troops back from the east by the train-load . |
| 12 | Out of this , forms emerge , solidify , and then disintegrate again as the spectator turns his attention back from the individual forms to the painting as a whole . |
| 13 | It felt like somebody was trying to poke his eye out from the inside with a pencil . |
| 14 | Nick poked his head up from the blanket and looked around . |
| 15 | Poking his head out from the cab , to get a little cooling draught , he noticed that they were about to enter a long deep cutting and marvelled at the way the cutting must have been cut through almost solid rock . |
| 16 | Then he poked his head out from the covers to listen . |
| 17 | Fast , quick-witted and determined as a player , demanding and insistent as a manager , there was little doubt that he would snatch his career back from the brink of failure . |
| 18 | He pushed his chair back from the table and walked over to the drawer in the dresser where they kept the cash-box . |
| 19 | Andra moved his chair back from the table a little . |
| 20 | He shoved his chair back from the table . |
| 21 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 22 | Despite the agreed battle-plan , Franco did not move any of his forces up from the Jarama front and twice refused the request of the Italian Commander-in-Chief that his troops be relieved by Spaniards . |
| 23 | The Earl dragged his fists back from the table and , opening his shoulders and mouth , stretched his sinews , as if parting Philistine pillars . |
| 24 | He even takes his food in from the kitchen . ’ |
| 25 | The glow faded in mere moments , during which time the Doctor dropped into the corridor , snatching his hands back from the sides of his newly created tunnel with sharp gasps . |
| 26 | Usually he was in camouflage smock and holding an A.K. at the hip , and would probably have knocked half his pelvis off from the recoil if he had fired at that angle . |
| 27 | Ralph strives to address ‘ the high heid yins of Russia ’ to solicit news of the family , and receives his letter back from the Embassy in London , stamped : ‘ Communication not permitted . ’ |
| 28 | Jack ‘ Kid ’ Berg , who grew up in the East End ghetto , fought his way up from the streets to a world welterweight title in the tradition of oppressed racial minorities . |
| 29 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 30 | Blackberry was about to reply when another rabbit came noisily through the thick dog 's mercury in the wood , blundered down into the brambles and pushed his way up from the ditch . |