Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [verb] from him " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were much the best performances I have heard from him , and say a lot for the state of Horndean , Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies , from whom the Festival Chorus were drawn . |
| 2 | This necklace , she said , picking up another , this was the last piece she had bought from him . |
| 3 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 4 | ’ Come away in and warm yourself , Archie , ’ I said , adopting an idiom I had absorbed from him . |
| 5 | I should know — playing ostrich is a habit I 've inherited from him ! |
| 6 | And his quality show earned the praise of manager Steve Gritt , who said : ‘ That is the best all-round performance I 've seen from him and for the second game in succession he 's earned us a draw . ’ |
| 7 | She did n't care one way or the other , but the moody glance he sent her provided a small measure of compensation for all the insults she had endured from him . |
| 8 | The main thing I 've learned from him was how to deal with disaster . |
| 9 | Hewlett , I rashly said I would send him some of the letters I had received from him . |
| 10 | She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room . |
| 11 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |