Example sentences of "[pers pn] have inherited from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should know — playing ostrich is a habit I 've inherited from him ! |
| 2 | While she had inherited from her father , and the stallion 's father before him , a stubborn and cussed temperament . |
| 3 | They were in the sitting-room of Isobel 's little house , the house she had inherited from her mother . |
| 4 | She had inherited from her father a quick , enquiring mind and was hungry for knowledge beyond the skills possessed by the Romanies . |
| 5 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 6 | If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 8 | But one of the most persistent and pernicious myths we 've inherited from Descartes is that mentality is essentially conscious , so that anything we ca n't introspect ca n't really be going on in our mind . |
| 9 | we 've inherited from the states and er replicating throughout throughout throughout the U K and into Europe . |
| 10 | Stefano Tani has already pointed out that Calvino 's idea of observation , within his wider poetic of ‘ seeing ’ , is a different matter from the ‘ impassive and indifferent , basically blind , gaze that we have inherited from the nouveau roman ’ . |
| 11 | Any traces have been obliterated by the advance of the ethos that we have inherited from our Cro-Magnon ancestors . |
| 12 | The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals . |
| 13 | For the women 's movement now this is one of the most important issues we have to deal with — our relationships with each other and the eradication of all the oppressions we have inherited from capitalist patriarchy . |
| 14 | Appreciation of the vital place which the Church had in Medieval life is necessary to an understanding of the buildings which we have inherited from this time . |
| 15 | During this period following the collapse of Roman rule in the West , sometimes still called the ‘ dark ages ’ , Western Christians rethought the culture they had inherited from the ancient world . |
| 16 | And how can we account for its appearance now when less than two years ago , Reagan and his government-shrinking colleagues attempted an across-the-board 12-per cent blood-letting on the research and development budget they had inherited from Jimmy Carter ? |
| 17 | They used the technique of research they had inherited from their predecessors . |
| 18 | The reciprocity between these sets of conceptions ‘ in the mind ’ can only perpetuate within the psyche of the individual worker and manager the images of authority they have inherited from their relationships with people who had authority over them in the past . |
| 19 | Romanians are very well aware of how much they have inherited from the Ceauşescu regime and how difficult it is , with the best will in the world , to purge the moral degradation from their souls . |
| 20 | However , wrote Goldberg , turning the page and tearing it slightly in his eagerness to go on , my son is rather short-sighted , something he has inherited from his mother , and recently , during a school trip to Dieppe , he dropped his glasses and cracked one of the lenses . |
| 21 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 22 | With the handing over to the Council of Europe in 1960 of the social and cultural responsibilities it had inherited from the Treaty of Brussels , it seemed that to all intents and purposes WEU had become moribund . |
| 23 | The agreement sought to break down Ford 's rigid bureaucratic system of categorizing semi-skilled production work and the craft demarcations it had inherited from craft unionism . |
| 24 | It diagnosed the main weaknesses in the schools it had inherited from earlier decades and set out its alternative vision , a Primary Needs Programme intended to meet children 's needs by transforming schools into exemplars of ‘ good primary practice ’ . |
| 25 | In 1968 the Council moved from the premises in Park Crescent it had inherited from the NCTA to larger offices in Devonshire Street ( formerly occupied by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations ) . |
| 26 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |
| 27 | He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management . |
| 28 | He was far more at home in jeans and a sweater or the favourite scuffed old flying jacket he had inherited from his father , who had been a Spitfire pilot in the war and he wore them whenever he could . |
| 29 | He had spent three years building on the excellent co-operation between the Bureau and the Yard that he had inherited from Darrell Mills . |
| 30 | ‘ In his profession he found a force stronger than the temperament he had inherited from his family ; instead of surrendering to his natural instincts he followed a clear , straight path , and did not slide into the wretched muddle in which all the other Rougons perished . ’ |