Example sentences of "from his [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involved exchanging ore from his new McCamey 's Monster mine for manufactured goods . |
| 2 | The attack is being spear headed from his new London offices by lawyer Paul . |
| 3 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Watch the birdie PRESIDENT Mitterrand did not allow last week 's premiership crisis to deflect him from his usual Monday morning pastime : playing golf at St Cloud , near Paris . |
| 4 | Mr Kray spoke up in reply from his fortified Nottingham retreat to say that in fact Mr McVitie 's remains are to be found in Whitstable Bay , Kent . |
| 5 | Up front , John Davies reclaims the tight-head prop slot and Mark Perego takes over from his injured Llanelli club-mate Lyn Jones on the open side . |
| 6 | That 's the shock verdict from his former Ibrox team-mate , veteran goalkeeper Dave McKellar . |
| 7 | Conti plays a disgraced MI5 agent returning to Britain from his adopted Russia and forced to team up with an old espionage adversary ( John Standing ) — but who is spying on whom ? |
| 8 | A DRINK-DRIVER who killed two young girls stumbled from his wrecked BMW and said : ‘ Look at the state of my car . ’ |
| 9 | THE Government 's most outspoken food safety critic , Professor Richard Lacey , has resigned from his only Whitehall post claiming it is being ‘ neutered ’ to protect the food and drug industry . |
| 10 | Outspoken food safety critic , Professor Richard Lacey , has resigned from his only Whitehall post . |
| 11 | Churchill indeed was so overcome with the romance of it all that he briefly reconciled himself to the departure of the British from his beloved India . |
| 12 | He was driven by a devil that he never knew but he never stopped fighting , a maker of his own myths , Celtic , Faustian , an Icarus and a Don Juan , coming out from his beloved Wales like a mystical warrior to rove the world for conquests , forever unsettled , forever daring . |
| 13 | TWIN OAKS will make a rare appearance away from his beloved Haydock in tomorrow 's Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury . |
| 14 | Apart from his large London abode , his nefarious activities brought him a cottage at Lightwater , another at Chobham , a house at Wokingham and one at Sonning . |
| 15 | Picard , who last year set up on his own after splitting from his associate Jacques Tajan , is using offices he inherited as his part of the separation . |
| 16 | Jean Alesi is said to be trying to disentangle himself from his 1993 Ferrari contract in order to make himself available to Williams . |
| 17 | He only arrived back in England on Tuesday from his sunny Tenerife training camp . |
| 18 | He has the fast talking sales pitch and easy familiarity common to people of his profession , coupled with a calmer side , fond of quoting wise sayings from his native India and disdainful of marketing favourites like ‘ adding value ’ with fancy packaging or ‘ creating new markets . ’ |
| 19 | Scenes from his native Iran are also used as backgrounds for further facial superimpositions . |
| 20 | But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece . |
| 21 | The notion took hold in Vicente at an early age and got serious reinforcement when he arrived in America from his native Spain ( by way of Paris ) and began to form lasting relationships with many other , then unknown , artists of the New York avant-garde . |
| 22 | Coach Lane has returned from his native Australia to watch his side perform this afternoon . |
| 23 | KEN FIDDLING , who died in June at the age of 74 , gave Northamptonshire quiet and efficient service behind the stumps from 1947 , when he headed south from his native Yorkshire , until injury put an end to his career six years later . |
| 24 | He came down from his native Yorkshire — Halifax in his case — along with fast bowler Frank McHugh in 1952 to join Gloucestershire . |
| 25 | The 35-year-old player wants to leave Gloucestershire , the county he joined from his native Yorkshire in 1984 . |
| 26 | Quinn 's tough background dictated that he had to know how to take care of himself , especially when at a young age he moved from his native Mexico into an area of Los Angeles where everyone was either Irish , Mexican or black . |
| 27 | When a figure such as Duck , amenable , respectful and flattering in his gratitude came to be transplanted from his native Wiltshire to mingle with the best society of the land , his mentors no longer questioned his right to such an elevation , but were immediately at pains to educate him to become an inconspicuous unit in his new social caste . |
| 28 | Raymond and Agnes , or the Castle of Lindenberg , play adapted by M. G. Lewis from his novel Ambrosio , or the Monk ; first produced in 1809 , and in other versions later ; the introduction of the character of the Bleeding Nun gave it its popular title . |
| 29 | When the man looked up from his digging Frizzell lifted a tired hand in salute and the man gravely acknowledged it . |
| 30 | There was n't much welcome to overstay in the various snack parlours where he lingered ( and where he moreover imagined himself unfavourably recollected from his previous TLM vigils , holding with both hands the creaky Styrofoam container , and watching the light pour past the office windows . |