Example sentences of "that he [verb] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not tell him how glad we were that he had stayed away from the moor ! |
| 2 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 3 | Years later he wrote to his mistress that while he wove an aesthetic about Kuchuk Hanem he knew that he had vanished completely from her memory . |
| 4 | He could organise the final output of everything that he had thought right from beginning through to end . |
| 5 | He gave the impression that he had come straight from fasting ; and there was a mild hint of irritation at his fast being interrupted . |
| 6 | Gooch 's century was a triumph , in that he had looked far from certain in the early part of his innings , particularly against the unlucky Morrison . |