Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 2 | Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS . |
| 3 | and I bi , you know that big loft I helped get the , get the la big lathe he bought from the |
| 4 | The dialectical method of reasoning he borrowed from Engel ; and we should never under-estimate its importance in being a fundamental break with the tradition of Western philosophy . |
| 5 | Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage . |
| 6 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what revenue he expects from the proceeds of privatisation for the period of the public expenditure survey . |
| 7 | His basic earthiness means that this will be his last season for the Harlequins , the club he joined from Blackheath in 1986 in order to have a tilt at international honours . |
| 8 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 9 | In any event , in mid-April he withdrew from the contest . |
| 10 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 11 | The Nationalists suffered an early and bitter blow in Glasgow Govan when Mr Jim Sillars , the party 's deputy leader , lost the seat he won from Labour in a spectacular by-election in 1988 . |
| 12 | It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre . |
| 13 | Pieper is quite frank about buying customer base , the result he anticipates from these other joint ventures . |
| 14 | Whatever the fault he had from the start , |
| 15 | On his shield was the rune of Slaanesh whose patronage he claimed from his mother 's side . |
| 16 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 17 | The latest follower of this school of thought is Robert D. Riggs , who , in a Harvard dissertation of 1987 , tried to dispose once and for all of what he calls the ‘ dualism ’ ( a term he adopted from Mies ) , i.e. the belief in an intended difference between the two signs . |
| 18 | Creggan asked , doing his best to seem merely curious but unable to stop the fear he felt from creeping into his voice . |
| 19 | His words in their very profusion are his earnest attempt to convey to the reader with almost desperate intensity the deep pleasure he drew from what he observed . |
| 20 | Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself . |
| 21 | Marc was moving through the gears with a touch like velvet , his control so sure , so sensual that she understood at once the pleasure he gained from driving . |
| 22 | By employing this structured procedure the designer now has control over the data he recalls from the turnkey system . |
| 23 | Langton realized her impatience and ushered them out of the office towards another door , which he opened with a heavy key he took from his pocket . |
| 24 | It is assumed John travelled first as a student , to Paris and perhaps elsewhere in France ; then he travelled countless times to the curia on the business of his master Theobald , archbishop of Canterbury ; and from his letters we know of at least two other major pilgrimages he undertook from his exile at Rheims in the 1160s . |
| 25 | Connelly felt himself losing consciousness but he was aware of being slapped hard across the face , even if the pain of the blow was negligible compared to the mind-numbing suffering he felt from his burned hand . |
| 26 | Throughout the autumn and winter he suffered from feverish colds and attacks of bronchitis , and was often forced to take to his bed for a week or fortnight at a time . |
| 27 | Piggott Smith seems genuinely still surprised at the sort of commitment and hard work he won from his cast . |
| 28 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 29 | And erm and he did this sermon so the next bloke he came from Kent somewhere er he was a miner or a miner 's delegate and he could really speak you know , arms waving and all that and he was a real preacher . |
| 30 | Ben concedes that he owes a great deal of his success to the help he gets from his Mum and Dad . |