Example sentences of "[noun pl] he had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Within a few weeks he had resigned from the party and become the founder of a new movement , the British National Socialist League . |
| 4 | He turned away to the bedside table and found a souvenir sack of nickels from Las Vegas among the things he had unpacked from his pockets . |
| 5 | Robinson Crusoe was far too busy cultivating his island on the basis of hard work helped by all the capital goods he had salvaged from the shipwreck to have any time for fairy stories . |
| 6 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 7 | Duroc remembered the files he had accessed from Bruyce-Hoare in Denver . |
| 8 | Battuta presented the gifts he had brought from Khorasan ; and in return he was given the post of Qazi ( or judge ) and presented with two villages , a pension of twelve thousand dinars and a house in which to live . |
| 9 | He refused to say where he had sold the items he had taken from the house . |
| 10 | Does the Secretary of State recall that although he gave an account of meetings with the Japanese , the question asked specifically what representations he had received from business men ? |
| 11 | Nicholson brought instant stability to the production and introduced some of the rigid controls he had learned from the Corman modus operandi . |
| 12 | He often brought her scraps he had filched from the instructors ' table . |
| 13 | While Dick Piper was hard pushed to find the five shillings he had borrowed from Harry Pierpoint , the father of the princess who was to become Queen Mary was jibbing at paying tradesmen 's bills which he had allowed to grow to around £20,000 . |
| 14 | They were some of the men he had borrowed from the local District Chief . |
| 15 | The loss of his agents amongst the Ping Tiao had been a serious setback , and the men he had bought from amongst their ranks had proved unsatisfactory in almost every respect . |
| 16 | The small party — Peter Young by now had about half the men he had brought from Maaloy — opened fire on the warehouse , the Colonel having already emptied his revolver in firing at a sniper 's window , and they kept the German from the window long enough for George Herbert to splash a bucket of petrol over the wooden walls . |
| 17 | By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books . |
| 18 | Stephen had given her the task of co-ordinating the interiors for the hotel , following the design schemes he had commissioned from a well-known Paris-based designer . |
| 19 | He was seated on the sofa sifting through a batch of papers he had taken from his attache case . |
| 20 | Yoshida 's decision resulted from the deductions he had drawn from Acheson 's major speech on 12 January 1950 in which he had indicated the principles of American policy in East Asia . |
| 21 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 22 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 23 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |