Example sentences of "to him from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 2 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 3 | I held it out to him from the pouch . |
| 4 | He had the whalebone sent to him from the port of Leith from where several whalers operated . |
| 5 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 6 | EMMA yells to him from the bedroom . |
| 7 | Alice Mair had heard the car and came out to him from the kitchen , wiping her hands . |
| 8 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 9 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 10 | He did n't pause as Dessie Burns called out to him from the hardware shop , he did n't notice Mr Kennedy looking over his glasses at all the bottles and apothecary jars in the window display of the chemist 's shop . |
| 11 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 12 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 13 | The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel . |
| 14 | A French attack was mounted on the duchy of Aquitaine , but the day was saved by the able lieutenancy exercised there by Richard of Cornwall , and by large loans to him from the cities of Bordeaux and Bayonne . |
| 15 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 16 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 17 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 18 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 19 | He takes a piece of paper from his pocket , a letter from Claudia smuggled to him from the Drancy camp in Paris . |
| 20 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 21 | " Anywhere , " we called back to him from the bow . |
| 22 | Then words had come to him from the sky . |
| 23 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |
| 24 | Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature . |
| 25 | Surely there could be no gain to him from the old lady 's death ? |
| 26 | By this time , she was too weak from hunger and thirst to call to him from the window . |
| 27 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 28 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |