Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Tretyakov Gallery would release hundreds of the works that he had given from its stores , and then the museum of the Russian Avant-garde would open . |
| 3 | Unlike the Shetland version where the baby was rescued by a young lad who later married the lass he had saved from death , the Faroese story is one of heroism but sadness , where the mother climbed to the eyrie ( which no man had ever been able to do ) only to find that her baby was dead . |
| 4 | Given this , Whitelocke was lucky to escape prosecution at the Restoration ; to the credit of both , he and Charles II made their peace when Whitelocke returned some royal manuscripts that he had saved from plunder and lectured the king about Welsh , which he said was ‘ his Majesty 's more ancient native language than English ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The dog he had raised from a pup went missing 31 days ago after running off on a country walk . |
| 7 | Eh er but er he had flown from Latvia . |
| 8 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 9 | He had retired from the Royal Navy in April 1955 at the age of 46 , but had maintained informal contacts with the intelligence fraternity . |
| 10 | One day , soon after he had retired from his legal practice , Hilbert told Lewis he had made a will that was ‘ very much to your advantage ’ . |
| 11 | He had retired from the NFI in August 1989 after 40 years of employment . |
| 12 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 13 | His father , the Colonel , with his ramrod-straight back , still using his title even though he had retired from the Army more than twenty years ago . |
| 14 | To be blunt , he was stitched up by outsiders ousted as chairman of the company he had created from nothing into one of the region 's biggest businesses . |
| 15 | From it , Kirov drew out a slim sheaf of black and white photographs of the young pilot , and a single sheet of personal notes which he had compiled from their conversations . |
| 16 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 17 | He firmly denied that he had emerged from the meeting empty handed . |
| 18 | The enemy horsemen were silhouetted on the southern skyline and Sharpe suspected they must have been trailing him ever since he had emerged from the trees . |
| 19 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 20 | Against all odds , he had emerged from the gutter to haunt her ! |
| 21 | Miss Trimm had talked about her son as an infant , how he had blessed the fishermen on Dynmouth Pier , how he had emerged from her womb without pain . |
| 22 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
| 23 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 24 | The best portrait of Chaucer was one he had made from life for his patron 's copy of the Regiment of Princes , where it accompanied Hoccleve 's praise of his master . |
| 25 | He was breathing heavily , but it had nothing to do with the run he had made from the car . |
| 26 | Bower-bird was normally a shy fellow , who lived deep in the bush in a little house he had made from leaves and moss , and decorated with brightly-coloured pebbles and flowers . |
| 27 | Li was sentenced to four years in prison , two years for each count , and ordered to pay both the alleged HK$865,000 ( US$110,000 ) profit he had made from the sale of the shares , and the estimated US$1,300,000 in court costs . |
| 28 | He had emigrated from Hampshire , with 26-year-old girlfriend Tracey Farmer to escape the recession and start a new life . |
| 29 | By the age of 19 he controlled a company he had inherited from his father . |
| 30 | He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management . |