Example sentences of "which he [vb past] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 ’ Donning a pair of small round plastic spectacles which he had extracted from a hidden pocket in the skirts of his frock-coat , he shambled over to the porter 's desk and ferreted around .
2 R. Kempt in " Convivial Caledonia " ( London 1893 ) gives a short account of the Islay Parliament which he had extracted from an account by Dr D. Anderson in the Scots Magazine of the previous year .
3 R. Kempt in " Convivial Caledonia " ( London 1893 ) gives a short account of the Islay Parliament which he had extracted from an account by Dr D. Anderson in the Scots Magazine of the previous year .
4 Freud originally used the technique of hypnosis which he had adopted from a friend of his , Joseph Breuer , with whom he wrote ‘ Studies in Hysteria ’ .
5 Temple had enthusiasm , he had theories about pop culture and the importance of the teenager ; above all , he had some equipment which he had borrowed from the National Film School .
6 The poem stresses throughout the elemental qualities of the landscape and seascape which it describes , leading Eliot to a particularly bare group of rocks which he had known from the sailing days of his childhood .
7 That case was distinguished in Charter v. Sullivan ( 1957 C.A. ) where the buyer refused to accept a Hillman Mini which he had ordered from a trader .
8 In 1539 Sir Richard Brereton decided to enclose and drain the Dogmore , a marshy common near Prees in Shropshire , which he had bought from the bishop of Lichfield .
9 When asked about the ‘ meaning ’ of his Foundation cycle , he was apt to burst into a song which he had adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera , Patience : ‘ Success is not a mystery , just brush up on your history , and borrow day by day/ Take an Empire that was Roman , and you 'll find it is at home in/ All the starry Milky Way . ’
10 One of his earliest tricks , first performed in 1865 , was ‘ escaping from a box ’ , in which he managed to escape from a locked , roped , wooden box inside a cabinet in seven seconds .
11 But Fen seemed quite happy , relaxing over his coffee which he kept replenishing from the large pot he had ordered , exchanging remarks with the landlord which revealed that he was a regular customer here .
12 He was dissatisfied , as always , with his previous work , and he had detected flaws in The Cocktail Party which he wished to remove from the new play .
13 Gwyn Parry of Greasby , however , observed such an excursion when the motive power throughout comprised of a Collett 0–6–0 and Dukedog No 9028 , which he photographed departing from the Down passenger loop platform on the return working .
14 When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week .
15 Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 .
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