Example sentences of "[conj] he have [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On autopsy it was established that he had suffered from a very rare brain condition in which the thalamus progressively degenerated . |
| 2 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 3 | He was an evacuee , said some ; others that he had absconded from a Borstal . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 5 | Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ? |
| 6 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 7 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 8 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 9 | When he had woken from a faint sleep on the ice cold floor of the cell , Holly had known that the lice had found him . |
| 10 | His room was drab and poky , but clean , rather as he had expected from a rundown lower middle-class Viennese pension . |