Example sentences of "what he [verb] [verb] from " in BNC.
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1 | " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew . |
2 | He only knew what he had heard from the servants . |
3 | What he had heard from Harry Chiltern was disturbing . |
4 | He promised to take the cast to him in the morning , and I arranged to call at his office at noon to learn what he had discovered from the dentist . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | What he had judged from the photograph to be red-brick he saw now was deep red Quantock stone , used in the construction of the Abbey and all its surrounding buildings . |
7 | Athelstan remembered what he had learnt from his study of the Index of Saints but decided not to confide in Sir John . |
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what he had learnt from d'Aubigny , once we were shown up to our chamber , but Master Benjamin was in one of his more withdrawn moods .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 | Knowing their speed from the films and their weight and limb lengths , McMahon found that the configuration of motion in human walking perfectly matched what he had predicted from 19th-century physics . |
10 | Afterwards , Nicholas wondered what he had expected from Zacco . |
11 | But , if that was what he had to expect from the Russian , then that is what he would beware of . |
12 | Larry Gelbart , co-writer of Tootsie , when asked what he had learned from the experience of working with Hoffman , replied , ‘ Never to work with an actor who is smaller than the Oscar statuette ! ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Wycliffe told the sergeant what he had learned from the girl in Riddle 's office and Curtis became animated . |
15 | Carver , his executive case on his knees , the bug inside it , thought over what he 'd learned from Evelyn Lennox . |
16 | He tried to give talks on how he had prepared the plan , captured the Bookman and what he hoped to learn from him , but nobody paid any attention . |
17 | The character talks freely about himself , and what he hopes to gain from his new rank . |
18 | Dr. Briant has told us how his project is operating , and what he expects to discover from it . |
19 | A third view of what he wanted came from the same head telling himself that he wanted pupils in his school to have a vision of learning as an embodiment of self-improvement . |
20 | He was ready to go alone among a crowd of suspicious strangers , but what he stood to gain from this risk it was impossible to guess . |
21 | What he has learned from Goldsmith ( ‘ the only genius I have ever come across ’ ) is that the holding company is not the most important unit of corporate organisation . |