Example sentences of "he have inherited [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He talked wildly about shame and guilt , and how he would give part of the money he 'd inherited to his wife and to you , and use the rest to escape from England with the girl he loved . |
| 3 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 4 | The money he had inherited with the house just was n't enough . |
| 5 | In that year , represented in Paris by Francois Cothereau , ‘ hautbois du Roy de France living on the rue St Marguerite , parish of St Sulpice ’ he sold to his brother Jean ( ‘ hautbois du Roy living in this city of Paris , rue des Fosses , St Germain des Pres , parish of St Sulpice ’ ) land in La Couture which he had inherited on his mother 's death in 1669 ( document 3 ) . |
| 6 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |
| 7 | He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had spent three years building on the excellent co-operation between the Bureau and the Yard that he had inherited from Darrell Mills . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | It compounds still further those two legacies so actively conjoined since the previous summer of 1837 : the historical , biogeographical ( including ecological ) concerns that he had inherited from Lyell , and the generational concerns deriving from his study with Grant and subsequent reading in Erasmus Darwin . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The monarch , it was argued , unable to escape from his burdens by resignation , as a mere minister could , and anxious to pass on undiminished to his heirs what he had inherited from his ancestors , was the safest and most effective possible guardian of the public welfare . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1691 Martin sold a house in La Couture , which he had inherited from his father in ] 689 , to his brother-in-law Louis Hotteterre , ‘ player of hautboys and other instruments living in the said city of Paris at the end of the Pont Marie Therese ’ ( document 4 ) . |
| 16 | Jacques 's scores , itemized with the library books , were clearly those he had inherited from his father ( document 9 ) . |
| 17 | Then , when King John took over the French lands which he had inherited in 1200 , he was allowed to do so only on condition that he should recognise them as being fiefs held of the king of France . |
| 18 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 19 | Chauthala needed to win a seat in the Haryana state assembly to secure his post as Chief Minister , a post which he had inherited in 1989 from his father , the powerful Deputy Prime Minister , Devi Lal . |
| 20 | The complex legacy which he had inherited in 1016 had been well utilised , a considerable number of its problems solved ( for a time , at least ) , and many of its opportunities taken . |
| 21 | He came from a comparatively well established family — the baronetcy he had inherited after Harrow and Oxford had been created in 1943 . |