Example sentences of "[pers pn] had learned from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I summarised what I had learned from Froggy 's sister , and the many questions in my mind . |
| 2 | The hours rolled towards dawn and she sat alone , thinking about all she had learned from Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 3 | THE sister of missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh told last night how she survived a knife ordeal because of what she had learned from the family 's nightmare . |
| 4 | It was merely that she had learned from her life with him that , like many married women , she did n't really need a husband . |
| 5 | She had learned from experience that it was unwise to argue . |
| 6 | She not only had the figure of a mannequin but she had learned from the girls at the salon how to walk , how to hold her head up , how to appear perfectly poised . |
| 7 | How much she had learned from him . |
| 8 | A word which she had learned from Rose . |
| 9 | Ever since she had learned from Rose of his mother 's red hair , she had fondly permitted her idle daydream , her secret wishes , to grow and flower as if indeed they existed . |
| 10 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 11 | Loretta passed on what she had learned from Tracey . |
| 12 | But managers told me that they had learned from the experience . |
| 13 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 14 | In fact they did not host another major ball until Christmas 1983 , by which time they had learned from their mistakes . |
| 15 | Both acknowledged the lessons they had learned from mentors early in their careers and each accepted that as time elapses heads appoint other teachers who have something of their own style about them . |
| 16 | And a large part of what it was teaching to the Germans it had learned from the Romans . |
| 17 | Even after the Independent 's uncritical puff for what it had learned from ‘ high-level sources ’ , America 's trial balloon was slow to take off . |
| 18 | Nicholson brought instant stability to the production and introduced some of the rigid controls he had learned from the Corman modus operandi . |
| 19 | By 1883 the Titfords were living at 2 Mount Terrace , Curry Rivel , where Benjamin was supplementing his income — a trick he had learned from his father ? — by acting as an insurance agent for the ‘ Lancashire ’ . |
| 20 | Larry Gelbart , co-writer of Tootsie , when asked what he had learned from the experience of working with Hoffman , replied , ‘ Never to work with an actor who is smaller than the Oscar statuette ! ’ |
| 21 | He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released . |
| 22 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 23 | In Suger s case , this power was given sharper focus by its place at the apex of the terrestrial hierarchy ; for , as he had learned from the presumed patron of his monastery , Pseudo-Dionysius , this was the proper ordering of earthly political authority . |
| 24 | That was a lesson he had learned from his father . |
| 25 | Although he became critical of the methods of the old bone-setters , and especially of their views on diseases of the joints , he had learned from watching his father 's manipulative practices , and in his workshop he followed their practice of making their own splints . |
| 26 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 27 | Wycliffe told the sergeant what he had learned from the girl in Riddle 's office and Curtis became animated . |
| 28 | He had learned from Desmond Morton that there was a plan afoot involving iron ore and the Swedish port of Oxelosund , which — had he not ‘ joined the wrong eleven ’ — he might have had a hand in . |