Example sentences of "which he [verb] [vb pp] from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly an injunction against the defendant fulfilling any contract with any person named on a card index which he had obtained from his former employer was discharged , the court saying it was bound to limit the period to one year at the longest . |
| 2 | In 1691 Martin sold a house in La Couture , which he had inherited from his father in ] 689 , to his brother-in-law Louis Hotteterre , ‘ player of hautboys and other instruments living in the said city of Paris at the end of the Pont Marie Therese ’ ( document 4 ) . |
| 3 | Wunis , a young oil company official , was to some extent moved by indignation about the deceitfulness of the government ; he was also perhaps self-consciously applying those notions of good efficient management which he had gained from his oil company training : decisions about expenditure have to be made in a context of opportunity costs , of an overview of expenditure as a whole . |
| 4 | We inspected everything , from the plumbing arrangements to the cornices and architraves , entirely ‘ new ’ ideas which he had gleaned from his trips to Europe . |
| 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 | He firmly rejected the charge of conservatism , which he said derived from his " uncompromising stand on genuine socialism " . |