Example sentences of "from his own [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Even the employer operating from his own premises often took it for granted that if his advantage dictated it , the parish must take the strain . |
2 | The plaintiffs … relied on the maxim that no one can be allowed to derogate from his own grant . |
3 | Anyway , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ Sir Ralph moves from his own chamber to the so called security of the North Bastion tower . |
4 | ‘ She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’ |
5 | If the victim emerges from his own dwelling , and his protagonist repeats his threats or insults , the offence is committed . |
6 | What if he 'd suggested the woods as being far away from his own territory ? ’ |
7 | These are the details we have so far — oh , plus a letter from his own GP . ’ |
8 | Jerry Lee still found time to criticise the bassist from his own backing band but was now in classic form . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | From 1823 he produced a series of plates illustrating his discoveries , largely engraved from his own drawings , entitled The Durobrivae of Antoninus . |
11 | David Hooker , Aberdeen 's managing director , said yesterday that a final offer was being posted to Brabant 's shareholders , with a circular seeking approval for it from his own shareholders . |
12 | Brett 's third penalty on the hour raised Selkirk hopes and they were further fanned by Marshall 's try from his own lineout pouch , Keith McConnell 's support and tilts by Bill Gentleman and Cammy Guntley . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | CHILD superstar Macaulay Culkin 's next role could be as a boy who gets divorced from his own parents . |
15 | His interest in drawings dates from his youth and from his own enthusiasm for drawing . |
16 | In part out of deference to the sleepers , and in part from his own unease at saying aloud what was on his mind , Estabrook spoke in whispers . |
17 | Leese 's idiosyncratic views on race derived from his own experiences rationalized in terms of a particular intellectual tradition . |
18 | Che Guevara , whose analysis stemmed from his own experiences in Guatemala in 1954 ( Hodges : 1977 , pp. 15–16 ) , said , in an interview given on 18 April 1959 : |
19 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
20 | As John Martyn had emphasised nearly forty years earlier , Philip Miller wrote this conviction from his own trials in cultivation and propagation . |
21 | The Secretary of State will be aware from his own sources of the vast array of weapons being assembled and stored as far south as Limerick for transport to Northern Ireland . |
22 | Her cottage is on the prince 's 325-acre Highgrove estate in Gloucester , a polo ball 's throw away from his own home . |
23 | COMEDIAN Jim Davidson has been banned from his own home after his fourth wife Tracie took out a court injunction against him . |
24 | His body was discovered in the front garden of a house just fifty yards from his own home in Kenmuir Avenue . |
25 | There are thousands of examples , and in almost every community today there are families whose surnames show that centuries ago one of their ancestors moved sufficiently far from his own country , town or village , to acquire a place-name reference , and the name adhered . |
26 | Tolkien would have liked to hear the horns of Rohan blow , and watch the Black Breath of inertia dissolve from his own country . |
27 | A few writers suggest that the Allies ( that is , the American OSS ) demanded his release so that they could get better reporting on the situation inside Vietnam than the aged Nguyen Hai Thanh , long absent from his own country , was able to provide . |
28 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
29 | We are committed , morally and politically , to treating everyone as free , with a right to see things from his own standpoint and make his own decisions . |
30 | You have in your hands a book which starts clearly enough with a character trying to escape from his author and which has now reached the opposite pole with the real author ( myself trying to escape from his own character . |