Example sentences of "from which he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 2 | The plants had been sown with cotton into a large book which , he was told , probably somewhat testily by Miller , William Sherard had borrowed and from which he had extracted some desirable specimens to incorporate them into his herbarium , bequeathed to Oxford University . |
| 3 | He stared back in to the dark from which he had emerged . |
| 4 | So Alexander worked out a technique that not only freed him from the tendency which was at the bottom of his vocal troubles , but also cured his asthma from which he had suffered from birth . |
| 5 | Davide skipped the list of signatories and went on : ‘ The late Don Antonio 's interest in the thought and teachings of Pythagoras led him , the family allege , into heresy , and ultimately in his last days , into dementia praecox , aggravated by the debilitating epilepsy from which he had suffered since his middle years . |
| 6 | Ambrose , with the wind at his back at the southern end from which he had terminated England 's dogged resistance on the last afternoon of the 1990 Test , also had four wickets on the day , completing the latest West Indian triumph at Kensington by having David Richardson caught at the wicket and bowling Allan Donald with successive balls 20 minutes from lunch . |
| 7 | Romantic he certainly was , but I feel there was a deeper layer of consciousness from which he had decided to take a calculated risk , fully believing he would survive . |
| 8 | The papal army was beaten , and the Pope extracted from the town of Civitate , from which he had witnessed the battle . |
| 9 | The plate from which he had eaten his hamburgers and frozen green beans , which had been last night 's supper , still unrinsed in the sink ; the splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove ; the viscous mess of grime gumming the narrow gap between stove and cupboard ; the soiled and smelly teacloth hanging from its hook at the side of the sink ; last year 's calendar askew on its nail ; the two open shelves jammed with a conglomeration of half-used cereal packets , jars of stale jam , cracked mugs , packets of detergent ; the cheap , unstable table with its two chairs , their backs grubby from numerous clutching hands ; the linoleum curving at the wall where it had become unstuck ; the general air of discomfort , uncaring , negligence , dirt . |
| 10 | Sir Robert Graham , angered by a spell of imprisonment from which he had escaped into the Highlands , set up a conspiracy with two Stewarts , one of them James 's uncle and the other his own domestic chamberlain . |
| 11 | His emotional and intellectual development in Aden was such that it was to lead him inevitably back to France , back to emotional security with Rirette , and back to the political and social struggle from which he had escaped in a state of total disorientation a few months earlier . |
| 12 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
| 13 | A piece of old white sheeting , from which he had torn his ‘ bait ’ , lay beside him . |
| 14 | In 1905 he delivered the address in medicine at the BMA annual meeting , and in 1912 became an honorary fellow of the MPA ( from which he had resigned for reasons unknown in 1890 ) . |
| 15 | George Sa'adah , the Phalangist Party leader , re-entered the government of Selim al-Hoss on June 5 , returning to the post of Minister of Telecommunications and Posts from which he had resigned in mid-January . |
| 16 | On April 21 Mobutu accepted the leadership of the ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution ( MPR ) from which he had resigned a year before [ see p. 37336 ] . |
| 17 | In November 1990 Ciriaco De Mita resumed the post of president of the DC , from which he had resigned in February [ see p. 37262 ] . |
| 18 | Mellor , again , who realises that it was irascibility over broadcasters in general that got the then government into the fine mess from which he had to extract it . |
| 19 | It was the capital of Greece , Athens , that first captivated his mind ; a very different place from the Decapolis of which he had written in ‘ The Song Of The Hellenist ’ , and light years away from the London from which he had fled . |
| 20 | Her self-confidence never recovered , since if her belief was right there must have been something else wrong with her , some terrible ugliness from which he had fled even into the arms of an older woman . |
| 21 | The pulpit from which he had spoken his set text in memory of Sylvie ; and Jacques , his friend Jacques , had evoked in mellifluent French a Sylvie of old . |
| 22 | In laying her reverently back in the grave from which he had taken her , and sealing the murderer in her abandoned coffin , Cadfael had been and still was convinced that he did her will , and restored her to the resting-place she desired . |
| 23 | I know that the rules for feature-page articles are different from those for reviews , but I do think that Alan Clark , who was given large space on the Times ’ main feature page , could have got around to mentioning the book from which he had taken the material for his strictures of Churchill before his last two paragraphs : ‘ And yet , so docile and leader-oriented is the Conservative Party [ Whoops ! |
| 24 | When Bill Shankly surprisingly retired in 1974 , after transforming Liverpool into one of the giants of League soccer , it was widely predicted that the club would soon slip back into the rut from which he had hauled them . |
| 25 | He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come . |
| 26 | It was only six miles from the English Border , but in his day England was friendly , and as well as an English wife he had a great many links with the southern kingdom , in which he owned large lands and from which he had brought so many sprigs of the Norman and Flemish nobility to settle in Scotland . |