Example sentences of "which he [verb] [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Donning a pair of small round plastic spectacles which he had extracted from a hidden pocket in the skirts of his frock-coat , he shambled over to the porter 's desk and ferreted around . |
| 2 | Freud originally used the technique of hypnosis which he had adopted from a friend of his , Joseph Breuer , with whom he wrote ‘ Studies in Hysteria ’ . |
| 3 | That case was distinguished in Charter v. Sullivan ( 1957 C.A. ) where the buyer refused to accept a Hillman Mini which he had ordered from a trader . |
| 4 | When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week . |
| 5 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 6 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |