Example sentences of "that he [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central to Goldmann 's interest in the sociology of knowledge is the concept of ‘ potential consciousness ’ that he derives from Marx . |
| 2 | As we saw in Chapter 1 , there are unresolved conflicts between Beccaria 's fundamental assumptions about the nature of human beings , the social contract and the functions of punishment , on the one hand , and the particular mode of control that he derives from them , on the other . |
| 3 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 4 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 5 | His medical went well until he revealed that he suffered from asthma and David pointed out to him that he would never cope with that particular job . |
| 6 | You 'd certainly never guess that he suffered from arthritis … that was the chair cracking … not his hip . |
| 7 | In the emotionally charged pieces that he wrote from the war front , Nizan pointed up the inescapable fact that the future of France was being decided on the soil of Spain . |
| 8 | Well I suppose he might have asked some of the fitters , but I doubt it somehow seeing some of the acquisitions that he made from Llanberis when they were closing down there . |
| 9 | This interconnection between the political and the literary was again visible in the reports that he sent from the Aragon front in August 1936 , following the outbreak of the civil war . |
| 10 | Melissa stared at the two slabs of raw meat that he took from the refrigerator and felt her appetite vanish . |
| 11 | He believed that he came from God , revealed God , spoke for God , acted for God , was a channel for God 's grace and salvation . |
| 12 | In the summer of 1905 , Robert Connolly , a groom aged thirty-eight , applied for admission to the casual wards , saying that he came from Wellingborough , and was on his way to London . |
| 13 | She discovered that he was nineteen ( a year younger than her ) , that he came from the Kovno province of Poland and had escaped with his widowed mother and two elder brothers and young sister . |
| 14 | As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins . |
| 15 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 16 | Much of his youth was spent in Clermont , a city where the latter had been bishop , and his mentor there was Avitus , whose name indicates that he came from the same family as Sidonius 's father-in-law . |
| 17 | She racked her brains to remember what she had said about Barnes to David Fairfax , but she had said nothing , only that he came from Woodlands Incorporated — and that , because she was still holding his card in her hand . |
| 18 | It had never occurred to her that he came from the sort of background where servants were a matter of course and all one had to do in order to eat was pull a bell . |
| 19 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 20 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 21 | Shoals of people were coming up the drive from the west gate — Cameron recognized faces that he knew from the sawmill at Kenmore . |
| 22 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 23 | Surely it would be more accurate to say that he shifted from one theory to another , and that both formulations had their external , political aspect ? |
| 24 | And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art . |
| 25 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 26 | The short-term factors included the election in 1964 of a Labour government committed to an administrative reform of the institutions of government ; the appointment of a reforming minister — R H S Crossman — to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ; and the support for the idea of reform that he received from his senior civil servants ( Wood 1976 : 176–7 ) . |
| 27 | In 1155 he became abbot of St Victor : several letters and charters attest his financial vigilance and the practical support that he received from the English pope , Hadrian IV [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 29 | Now that we know what it means , will the Prime Minister reflect on the ’ double whammy ’ that he received from the other place on the Education ( Schools ) Bill last night ? |
| 30 | The snubs and indignities that he received from that quarter have passed into Gaullist lore : when he so much as enquired about the progress of the assembly 's constitutional commission , one of his own former ministers told him it was none of his business . |