Example sentences of "that he [verb] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | It compounds still further those two legacies so actively conjoined since the previous summer of 1837 : the historical , biogeographical ( including ecological ) concerns that he had inherited from Lyell , and the generational concerns deriving from his study with Grant and subsequent reading in Erasmus Darwin . |
| 32 | He felt , with some justification , that he had received from Transvaal a raw deal for his loyalty , and he moved to Bloemfontein . |
| 33 | At the same time , however , the man appointed as Minister , Gabriel Arias Salgado , was a rigid Catholic and well known for the fanatical campaigns against sin and temptation in literature , cinema and theatre that he had master-minded from the Department of Popular Education in the 1940s . |
| 34 | That he had stolen from , |
| 35 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 36 | He was an evacuee , said some ; others that he had absconded from a Borstal . |
| 37 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 38 | The later wildness and eccentricity of his style were completely out of character with his conventional , moral and industrious way of life ; his obituary reported that he had died from overwork . |
| 39 | The experts would say that he had died from suboxia — oxygen deficiency brought about in this case , Wycliffe believed , by a virulent poison . |
| 40 | Those close to him rejected official claims ( later confirmed by a post-morten requested by the Justice Ministry ) that he had died from high blood pressure , alleging instead that he had been tortured . |
| 41 | His real mother complained to social services that he had disappeared from home and might have been glue sniffing or taking drugs , it was alleged at Mold Crown Court . |
| 42 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 43 | The youngster told him that he had come from Wales to make his fortune as a pop singer . |
| 44 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 45 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
| 46 | Tim Clayson , prosecuting , said the four had driven to Redcar market where Mr Archer had his stall that he had bought from Miller 's estranged husband . |
| 47 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
| 48 | He would use whatever insight into Angy 's true nature that he had gleaned from Rick and Lou to undermine the pure , unsullied image that Barney was dedicated to preserving . |
| 49 | He had walked , dishevelled and mud-plastered , out into the square from the coffee shop and thrown at the feet of the Captain those trophies that he had lifted from three different observation posts along the way . |
| 50 | It may be noticed also , first , that no actual misrepresentation seems to have been made by Duval to his wife , notwithstanding that he had concealed from her material facts and , second , that the pressure he exerted on her to persuade her to sign does not seem to have been excessively overbearing or to have been accompanied by the threats or false promises or intimidation that are sometimes the hall marks of undue influence . |
| 51 | A man who had made his name by his own imagination and energy , not in just one skill but three : as choreographer , as deviser of revues and other shows , as director of a company that he had brought from obscure provincial competence to world-wide acclaim . |
| 52 | Lord John did not ride his horse , but rather drove in a gleaming open cabriolet that he had brought from London . |
| 53 | he 's not , he 's not , he 's not a , he 's not stupid , Christopher , he , he 's certainly not stupid , and er he must have seen , I mean I assume he keeps his bank statements , I mean I 'm afraid we have one or two bank statements which show thousands of pounds that he 's received from us over the last year erm and , you know , he ca n't blind because they 've all gone through his bank account , you know , he must |
| 54 | Is he the sort that he actually wants one , or has he bowed to the advisers that he 's got from the War Office and so on who say the soldiers need it ? |
| 55 | Will he confirm that all the professional advice that he has received from the Royal Navy is that only four boats absolutely guarantees an effective nuclear deterrent for this country ? |
| 56 | Now that he has retired from full time teaching , Guisborough-based John Brelstaff is able to devote more of his time to painting and has been able to resume the work left off when he left the Slade in the mid-Fifties . |
| 57 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 58 | Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ? |
| 59 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |