Example sentences of "what [pron] had [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That was not what she had inferred from Amy 's vehement if disjointed revelations .
2 He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’
3 Loretta passed on what she had learned from Tracey .
4 In other words , branches agreed to retain less than before of what they had collected from students , and if necessary raise extra funds through special events .
5 They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures .
6 " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew .
7 What he had heard from Harry Chiltern was disturbing .
8 I tried to question my master on what he had learnt from d'Aubigny , once we were shown up to our chamber , but Master Benjamin was in one of his more withdrawn moods .
9 Afterwards , Nicholas wondered what he had expected from Zacco .
10 This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside .
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