Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] have inherited [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He talked wildly about shame and guilt , and how he would give part of the money he 'd inherited to his wife and to you , and use the rest to escape from England with the girl he loved . |
| 2 | The money he had inherited with the house just was n't enough . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 5 | He came from a comparatively well established family — the baronetcy he had inherited after Harrow and Oxford had been created in 1943 . |
| 6 | During this period following the collapse of Roman rule in the West , sometimes still called the ‘ dark ages ’ , Western Christians rethought the culture they had inherited from the ancient world . |
| 7 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 8 | They were in the sitting-room of Isobel 's little house , the house she had inherited from her mother . |
| 9 | I should know — playing ostrich is a habit I 've inherited from him ! |
| 10 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |