Example sentences of "[pers pn] have inherited from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should know — playing ostrich is a habit I 've inherited from him ! |
| 2 | While she had inherited from her father , and the stallion 's father before him , a stubborn and cussed temperament . |
| 3 | They were in the sitting-room of Isobel 's little house , the house she had inherited from her mother . |
| 4 | She had inherited from her father a quick , enquiring mind and was hungry for knowledge beyond the skills possessed by the Romanies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 8 | Any traces have been obliterated by the advance of the ethos that we have inherited from our Cro-Magnon ancestors . |
| 9 | The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals . |
| 10 | They used the technique of research they had inherited from their predecessors . |
| 11 | The reciprocity between these sets of conceptions ‘ in the mind ’ can only perpetuate within the psyche of the individual worker and manager the images of authority they have inherited from their relationships with people who had authority over them in the past . |
| 12 | However , wrote Goldberg , turning the page and tearing it slightly in his eagerness to go on , my son is rather short-sighted , something he has inherited from his mother , and recently , during a school trip to Dieppe , he dropped his glasses and cracked one of the lenses . |
| 13 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In 1691 Martin sold a house in La Couture , which he had inherited from his father in ] 689 , to his brother-in-law Louis Hotteterre , ‘ player of hautboys and other instruments living in the said city of Paris at the end of the Pont Marie Therese ’ ( document 4 ) . |
| 18 | Jacques 's scores , itemized with the library books , were clearly those he had inherited from his father ( document 9 ) . |