Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] he [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 3 | Leopold Mozart was totally devoted to his brilliant son , whose extraordinary talents he recognized from the start . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It insults the great players he mentions from a by-gone age , and does n't do Vinny , his club or football in general any credit at all . |
| 6 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 7 | When Mr Engelberger appeared on television in 1967 with one of his earliest robots , the only calls he got from Americans were from showbiz agents trying to book his ‘ act ’ . |
| 8 | He commented patronisingly that almost the only sounds he heard from Baldwin during Cabinets were the rhythmic sucking of his pipe . |
| 9 | Schnitke 's language seems to lunge from outburst to tranquil apology for his own excesses — simple , melodic threads he untangles from demonic cackle and sheer noise . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Einstein learnt the mathematical techniques he needed from his friend Marcel Grossman over a number of years when they both lived in Zurich and regarded the techniques primarily as useful tools . |
| 12 | Lucien could not see very far in front of himself because of the tablecloth over his face and was unaware of the bewildered and amused glances he received from passing house staff . |
| 13 | Exasperated by the resistance of the Cabinet to new ideas he resigned from the Government and took his ease to the Labour party Conference in October 1930 , where he very nearly won it . |