Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shrugged , the jerky movement betraying for a moment the emotion he had banished from his voice . |
| 2 | Since growing up on the Norfolk coast he has painted from landscape . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's the Lennox girl , Steve , ’ said Papa Grimwood , checking the photograph he had obtained from INCUBUS HQ in the West End . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura . |
| 9 | His form 's not brilliant , but nor is the trainer he 's come from . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He was breathing heavily , but it had nothing to do with the run he had made from the car . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had captured his father by promising an elegant uncluttered lifestyle very different from the neglected unhappy home he had come from . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then she laughed ; her laughter so cold , so unlike the laughter he had known from her , that it made his flesh tingle with fear . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was an old brown-coloured stone ink jar he had rescued from Mr Corcoran 's waste-paper basket . |
| 20 | The confidence he had gained from having a loving wife was being undermined by a feeling of rejection from the public . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 25 | But the guts he has shown in resisting government plans for the body he has chaired from 1983 are far from academic . |
| 26 | They did n't enter the room he had come from , but Travis led her down to one she had rarely used . |
| 27 | After nine years ' captivity at Theodore 's court he had escaped from Magdala and returned to his homeland . |
| 28 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
| 29 | He was wearing the démodé pinstriped suit he 'd got from a junk-shop for a production of Arturo Ui ( ‘ grossly overplayed' — Glasgow Herald ) and the tie he 'd worn as Harry in Marching Song ( ‘ adequate if uninspiring' — Oxford Mail . |
| 30 | The police had brought a suit he 'd requested from his flat and he 'd changed into that , shaved and smartened himself up . |