Example sentences of "from what [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 2 | None of the Establishment lifted a finger to save William Cobbett from what they considered he well deserved . |
| 3 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 4 | ‘ From what she told me , Mellor was tipped to go to the top . ’ |
| 5 | I realise she was over-zealous the other day from what she told me afterwards . |
| 6 | I 'll have a look at it today I do n't think it 's anything , from what she told me yesterday , I think it 's electrical . |
| 7 | It is , in their Lordships ' opinion , quite clear that Mrs. Duval was pressed by her husband to sign , and did sign , the document , which was very different from what she supposed it to be , and a document of the true nature of which she had no conception . |
| 8 | ‘ From what you told me . |
| 9 | ‘ After all , from what you told me before you went to Japan you intend to go on living a bachelor life , almost as if I do n't exist . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ From what you told me I assumed it . |
| 11 | From what you told me , you seemed to feel the opposite : life might have been worth living if he was n't there . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He sounded interested enough from what you told me . |
| 13 | From what he told me I know for a fact the IRA did n't use Mick during their bombing campaign in England at the beginning of the war . ’ |
| 14 | Well it 's a lot different from what he told me . |
| 15 | Only Ember cared enough to come and talk to her ; from what he told her of the others , both the towered and the plain , she was glad . |
| 16 | Yet some form of coercion or compulsion still resulted from what he considered it right for him to do in certain circumstances . |
| 17 | and from what I understood he was already married anyway , never , never was mentioned here , but I did hear it , whether it was true or not I 'm not say it , but I was told that he was already married and divorced to marry her , that was what I was told , no I mean I do n't know , but but I 'm damn sure that I know |
| 18 | ‘ From what I heard you say a few minutes ago , you 're not feeling quite so grateful for the job now . ’ |
| 19 | What I felt was quite different from what I decided I should feel two days ago . |
| 20 | But from what I 'eard she 's a bit of a thing little more than half his age . |