Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] he have [verb] from " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |
| 2 | He was wearing the démodé pinstriped suit he 'd got from a junk-shop for a production of Arturo Ui ( ‘ grossly overplayed' — Glasgow Herald ) and the tie he 'd worn as Harry in Marching Song ( ‘ adequate if uninspiring' — Oxford Mail . |
| 3 | The horror remained on their faces , but for some reason he 'd disappeared from the scene . |
| 4 | As a boy in high school he 'd progressed from World-War-I aircraft-kits to model railways , his mind and his hands responding most happily to the assemblage of pistons , valves , wheels , with their appropriate adjustments and lubrications . |
| 5 | Walsh attributes his excellent form to the first real break he has had from year-round cricket : ‘ Being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise . |
| 6 | After he had sent off this AC/189 , Gen McCreery took steps to deal with the second signal he had received from Gen Keightley that morning , the 0.413 in which Keightley had reported in more detail on the imminent arrival in Austria of the 300,000 German and 200,000 Croat troops , and had asked for authorization to accept the surrender of these forces as " formed bodies " . |
| 7 | It is a picture indelibly imprinted , Ward 's voice painting it in quiet words , neither excited nor repelled by the horror of it , but simply repeating information he had obtained from one of the books he had borrowed from his Glasgow library as soon as he knew the route he would be taking to Punta Arenas and the Antarctic . |
| 8 | It is the second fortune he has made from the carpet-retailing business , after being forced out of his Harris Queensway chain nearly five years ago . |
| 9 | It is the second fortune he has made from the carpet-retailing business , after being forced out of his Harris Queensway chain nearly five years ago . |
| 10 | This aspect of his practice is only just beginning to change , but he intends to persevere with it , spurred on by the personal satisfaction he has derived from ‘ seeing them do their maths ’ . |
| 11 | He reached beneath his robes and pulled free the personal reader he 'd brought from his ship . |
| 12 | Bower-bird was normally a shy fellow , who lived deep in the bush in a little house he had made from leaves and moss , and decorated with brightly-coloured pebbles and flowers . |
| 13 | She had captured his father by promising an elegant uncluttered lifestyle very different from the neglected unhappy home he had come from . |
| 14 | The stranger let go and quickly thumbed through a small black book he had taken from his belt . |
| 15 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 16 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 17 | His tonsure had grown out raggedly , and grown out white as ash , and the six-weeks-old beard he had acquired from living wild was streaked with grey . |
| 18 | He walked over to the rickety wooden gateway , drawing from his pocket a small jar he had purloined from Mait 's Bagi before Ace had blown it up . |
| 19 | Harry had lost the high , blooming colour he had got from two hours of strenuous play with blunted swords , and was pale now with a bright , wary , aggressive pallor . |
| 20 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 21 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 22 | Initially then , while the insider trading prohibition was directed only at persons connected with the company whose securities were in question , the Cady , Roberts decision broadened the scope of the law considerably to extend to , in this example , a trust officer who traded on the basis of inside information he had obtained from an insider . |
| 23 | As she began to feel faint she reached for his smouldering cloak , the short red cloak he had taken from the raider . |
| 24 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
| 25 | In the brief walk from No. 22 to his own flat he had pulled from the back of his mind a conviction that had been forming there without much conscious thought on his part , just something he knew . |
| 26 | Van Der Meulen was an austere , patriarchal figure , deeply imbued with the rigidly Calvinist outlook he had acquired from his father , a schoolmaster in a small village near the German frontier . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 29 | You see , the last order he 'd had from her was made from London after she 'd disappeared — although he did n't know that . |