Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] he [vb past] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill hoped to make a start towards the reconciliation of these objectives with an already over-burdened economy by making cuts to the defence programme he had inherited from Labour . |
| 2 | But his continuing silence had brought her to the conclusion that he was content , with both his semi-bachelor life and his affair with his personal assistant , an affair he was still obviously continuing , she thought grimly , recalling the phone call he 'd received from his ‘ personal assistant ’ in Liz 's apartment earlier this morning . |
| 3 | It was an old brown-coloured stone ink jar he had rescued from Mr Corcoran 's waste-paper basket . |
| 4 | Cranston delved into a small leather pouch he had taken from his saddle-bag , undid the cord at the neck and drew out a small vase containing the poison he had taken from Springall 's house . |
| 5 | Rance quickly decided that the Executive Council he had inherited from Dorman-Smith was useless while most of the senior British officials seemed to lack any ideas . |
| 6 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |