Example sentences of "what he [verb] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew . |
| 2 | He only knew what he had heard from the servants . |
| 3 | What he had heard from Harry Chiltern was disturbing . |
| 4 | He promised to take the cast to him in the morning , and I arranged to call at his office at noon to learn what he had discovered from the dentist . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What he had judged from the photograph to be red-brick he saw now was deep red Quantock stone , used in the construction of the Abbey and all its surrounding buildings . |
| 7 | Athelstan remembered what he had learnt from his study of the Index of Saints but decided not to confide in Sir John . |
| 8 | I tried to question my master on what he had learnt from d'Aubigny , once we were shown up to our chamber , but Master Benjamin was in one of his more withdrawn moods . |
| 9 | Knowing their speed from the films and their weight and limb lengths , McMahon found that the configuration of motion in human walking perfectly matched what he had predicted from 19th-century physics . |
| 10 | Afterwards , Nicholas wondered what he had expected from Zacco . |
| 11 | Larry Gelbart , co-writer of Tootsie , when asked what he had learned from the experience of working with Hoffman , replied , ‘ Never to work with an actor who is smaller than the Oscar statuette ! ’ |
| 12 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 13 | Wycliffe told the sergeant what he had learned from the girl in Riddle 's office and Curtis became animated . |
| 14 | Carver , his executive case on his knees , the bug inside it , thought over what he 'd learned from Evelyn Lennox . |
| 15 | What he has learned from Goldsmith ( ‘ the only genius I have ever come across ’ ) is that the holding company is not the most important unit of corporate organisation . |