Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] he have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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1 | But er I mean he 's come from Birmingham up to Barnsley it 's only what a hundred mi well is it hundred about ninety odd mile ? |
2 | I discovered he had come from South America . |
3 | The story of King Bladud was first chronicled by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( c. 1100–1154 ) in his Historia Regum Britanniae , a collection of mythology and history relating to the early history of Britain , which he claimed he had translated from a lost book of Breton legends . |
4 | ‘ I was sharing a cell with an Irishman and he reckoned he 'd heard from another man in there that there was a plan to kill MacQuillan . |
5 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
6 | He acknowledges he has learned from Porter 's writing on competitive advantage , but probably speaks for most of his peers when he says : ‘ I do n't read business texts written by academics for the purpose of discovering a direct application that I can use . |
7 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |