Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had moved from his shoulder , so he got up and retrieved my hat . |
| 2 | This included one of the most severe letters I had seen from his pen . |
| 3 | ‘ In particular , I 've learned from his ability to man-manage . |
| 4 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 5 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
| 6 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 7 | Perhaps she 'd fled from his passivity , from his ease beneath the spike of her beauty . |
| 8 | She had run from his office and away from Woodline Design . |
| 9 | I must leave it to economists to say how much they have learnt from his account , or where they would disagree with it . |
| 10 | However , wrote Goldberg , turning the page and tearing it slightly in his eagerness to go on , my son is rather short-sighted , something he has inherited from his mother , and recently , during a school trip to Dieppe , he dropped his glasses and cracked one of the lenses . |
| 11 | More ducks arrived , shouting , ‘ He has escaped from his garden ! |
| 12 | Mr Ashdown intends to make a keynote speech in Dunoon today , dwelling on the lessons he has learned from his private tours round Britain since the election . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was , therefore , with exaggerated haste that he undid his black tie , pulled the white shirt over his head , substituted a red T-shirt and a pair of old Norfolk drab cords that he 'd salvaged from his father 's wardrobe . |
| 15 | He reached beneath his robes and pulled free the personal reader he 'd brought from his ship . |
| 16 | The police had brought a suit he 'd requested from his flat and he 'd changed into that , shaved and smartened himself up . |
| 17 | It had sprung from his activities in the housing movement , but was run on straight commercial lines , providing an ‘ alternative ’ removals service and producing a nice sideline in salvaged Victorian fireplaces which were sold to the new rich . |
| 18 | One day , soon after he had retired from his legal practice , Hilbert told Lewis he had made a will that was ‘ very much to your advantage ’ . |
| 19 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |
| 20 | He was far more at home in jeans and a sweater or the favourite scuffed old flying jacket he had inherited from his father , who had been a Spitfire pilot in the war and he wore them whenever he could . |
| 21 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |
| 22 | The monarch , it was argued , unable to escape from his burdens by resignation , as a mere minister could , and anxious to pass on undiminished to his heirs what he had inherited from his ancestors , was the safest and most effective possible guardian of the public welfare . |
| 23 | In 1691 Martin sold a house in La Couture , which he had inherited from his father in ] 689 , to his brother-in-law Louis Hotteterre , ‘ player of hautboys and other instruments living in the said city of Paris at the end of the Pont Marie Therese ’ ( document 4 ) . |
| 24 | Jacques 's scores , itemized with the library books , were clearly those he had inherited from his father ( document 9 ) . |
| 25 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |
| 26 | Gagarin had had to search into the past for a word which perhaps he had heard from his granny ! |
| 27 | I used to watch him out of the back attic window in the late afternoon , when he had risen from his rest . |
| 28 | He had risen from his chair , taking the refusal for granted . |
| 29 | He shrugged , the jerky movement betraying for a moment the emotion he had banished from his voice . |
| 30 | Since he had split from his screen partner Dean Martin , he had managed to stay popular , playing dumbos with squeaky voices . |