Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] from " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 2 | Back in the forest the Doctor discovers the Daleks have taken the piece he sabotaged from the TARDIS . |
| 3 | and I bi , you know that big loft I helped get the , get the la big lathe he bought from the |
| 4 | The dialectical method of reasoning he borrowed from Engel ; and we should never under-estimate its importance in being a fundamental break with the tradition of Western philosophy . |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what revenue he expects from the proceeds of privatisation for the period of the public expenditure survey . |
| 6 | His basic earthiness means that this will be his last season for the Harlequins , the club he joined from Blackheath in 1986 in order to have a tilt at international honours . |
| 7 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 8 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 9 | The Nationalists suffered an early and bitter blow in Glasgow Govan when Mr Jim Sillars , the party 's deputy leader , lost the seat he won from Labour in a spectacular by-election in 1988 . |
| 10 | It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre . |
| 11 | Pieper is quite frank about buying customer base , the result he anticipates from these other joint ventures . |
| 12 | Whatever the fault he had from the start , |
| 13 | On his shield was the rune of Slaanesh whose patronage he claimed from his mother 's side . |
| 14 | The latest follower of this school of thought is Robert D. Riggs , who , in a Harvard dissertation of 1987 , tried to dispose once and for all of what he calls the ‘ dualism ’ ( a term he adopted from Mies ) , i.e. the belief in an intended difference between the two signs . |
| 15 | Creggan asked , doing his best to seem merely curious but unable to stop the fear he felt from creeping into his voice . |
| 16 | His words in their very profusion are his earnest attempt to convey to the reader with almost desperate intensity the deep pleasure he drew from what he observed . |
| 17 | Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself . |
| 18 | Marc was moving through the gears with a touch like velvet , his control so sure , so sensual that she understood at once the pleasure he gained from driving . |
| 19 | Langton realized her impatience and ushered them out of the office towards another door , which he opened with a heavy key he took from his pocket . |
| 20 | Connelly felt himself losing consciousness but he was aware of being slapped hard across the face , even if the pain of the blow was negligible compared to the mind-numbing suffering he felt from his burned hand . |
| 21 | Throughout the autumn and winter he suffered from feverish colds and attacks of bronchitis , and was often forced to take to his bed for a week or fortnight at a time . |
| 22 | Piggott Smith seems genuinely still surprised at the sort of commitment and hard work he won from his cast . |
| 23 | Articles 85 and 86 of Table A ( prescribed pursuant to the Companies Act 1985 ) provide that so long as a director has disclosed his interest to the company , he may be a party to or interested in any transaction , and shall not by reason of his office be accountable to the company for any benefit he receives from such a transaction . |
| 24 | And erm and he did this sermon so the next bloke he came from Kent somewhere er he was a miner or a miner 's delegate and he could really speak you know , arms waving and all that and he was a real preacher . |
| 25 | Ben concedes that he owes a great deal of his success to the help he gets from his Mum and Dad . |
| 26 | In the book , John pays tribute to the help he had from RAF Lyneham psychiatrist , Gordon Turnbull . |
| 27 | He was always ready to provide plants for scientific purposes , and his friend Nathaniel Ward [ q.v. ] warmly acknowledged the help he received from Loddiges in developing Wardian cases . |
| 28 | But when he saw that others liked the plan he refrained from blocking it . |
| 29 | The fee charged by the agent is , naturally enough , directly proportional to the compensation he gleans from the public authority on behalf of his client . |
| 30 | A priest tells the story of a boy he rescued from poverty who grows up to become a revolutionary leader . |