Example sentences of "[noun] he have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pah , nothing 's left from the previous existence — only the mere lees and dregs of thought , dreams of past time that the creature does not heed , or not half as much as the figments he has derived from Milton ! |
| 2 | He shrugged , the jerky movement betraying for a moment the emotion he had banished from his voice . |
| 3 | Since growing up on the Norfolk coast he has painted from landscape . |
| 4 | Churchill hoped to make a start towards the reconciliation of these objectives with an already over-burdened economy by making cuts to the defence programme he had inherited from Labour . |
| 5 | She walked round the room , looking at the fragments he 'd preserved from their life together . |
| 6 | Kalchu climbed on to the roof of the house , and with the flame he 'd brought from the shrine fire set light to the two piles of jharo . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the Lennox girl , Steve , ’ said Papa Grimwood , checking the photograph he had obtained from INCUBUS HQ in the West End . |
| 8 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 9 | Walsh attributes his excellent form to the first real break he has had from year-round cricket : ‘ Being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise . |
| 10 | Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries . |
| 11 | At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura . |
| 12 | It is a picture indelibly imprinted , Ward 's voice painting it in quiet words , neither excited nor repelled by the horror of it , but simply repeating information he had obtained from one of the books he had borrowed from his Glasgow library as soon as he knew the route he would be taking to Punta Arenas and the Antarctic . |
| 13 | His form 's not brilliant , but nor is the trainer he 's come from . |
| 14 | Van Der Meulen was an austere , patriarchal figure , deeply imbued with the rigidly Calvinist outlook he had acquired from his father , a schoolmaster in a small village near the German frontier . |
| 15 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
| 16 | He was breathing heavily , but it had nothing to do with the run he had made from the car . |
| 17 | Like the time she 'd found Will Pegg 's pockets full of iron nails he 'd filched from Samson . |
| 18 | Rance quickly decided that the Executive Council he had inherited from Dorman-Smith was useless while most of the senior British officials seemed to lack any ideas . |
| 19 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |
| 20 | She had captured his father by promising an elegant uncluttered lifestyle very different from the neglected unhappy home he had come from . |
| 21 | The consequence of this may be , and in some cases will be , to divest a third party of title to property which since the commencement of the bankruptcy he has acquired from the bankrupt . |
| 22 | I refer to your fax of 24 May 1993 asking for comments/answers on various questions to enable you to reply on behalf of the Convener to correspondence he has received from Council Tax payers . |
| 23 | Then she laughed ; her laughter so cold , so unlike the laughter he had known from her , that it made his flesh tingle with fear . |
| 24 | He walked over to the rickety wooden gateway , drawing from his pocket a small jar he had purloined from Mait 's Bagi before Ace had blown it up . |
| 25 | It was an old brown-coloured stone ink jar he had rescued from Mr Corcoran 's waste-paper basket . |
| 26 | The confidence he had gained from having a loving wife was being undermined by a feeling of rejection from the public . |
| 27 | He also spoke of the motivation and enjoyment he had derived from Young Enterprise and the confidence he had gained from this knowledge that he did possess significant , relevant abilities school just had not teased them out before . |
| 28 | The heavy labour not only fought the flab around his waist but cured him of the insomnia he had suffered from for so many years . |
| 29 | Within a few weeks he had resigned from the party and become the founder of a new movement , the British National Socialist League . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |