Example sentences of "he had learned from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson brought instant stability to the production and introduced some of the rigid controls he had learned from the Corman modus operandi . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That was a lesson he had learned from his father . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wycliffe told the sergeant what he had learned from the girl in Riddle 's office and Curtis became animated . |
| 11 | 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 . |