Example sentences of "which he [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all the wartime jibes and contempt which he directed from Berlin at ‘ Mr Bloody Churchill ’ and his followers , he was hanged . |
| 2 | Before that it is worth reiterating Althusser 's holistic view of the individual , and introducing an analogy which he takes from Marx . |
| 3 | The answer is clear : it owes to the biological presuppositions which he takes from Aristotle . |
| 4 | There are poems to Rosa which he takes from the trash . |
| 5 | Mr Martin comes to Edinburgh from Basil Blackwell , which he developed from a small family business with sales of under £1 million into a major international publishing group with a turnover of more than £14 million . |
| 6 | and other Welsh scholars , he prepared new editions of The History of the Gwydir Family ( 1927 ) , and Basilikon Doron ( 1604 ) , and four seventeenth-century Welsh religious books for the University of Wales press board , on which he served from 1922 until 1930 . |
| 7 | But the books which he took from the shelves in those stolen hours in the school library were history and biography and political science . |
| 8 | Basic to it is a distinction , which he took from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) , between ‘ natural science ’ and ‘ moral science ’ , which he rendered in German as Naturwissenschaft and Geisteswissenschaft respectively . |
| 9 | Thomas ’ belief that woman 's state is one of subjection derives , as we have seen , from the false biological presuppositions which he took from Aristotle . |
| 10 | This omits the details on Mildred , but adds , in a way reminiscent of chapter 5 of the 1027 Letter , that Cnut was most acceptable to the emperor , and says that on landing he hurried to St Augustine 's to offer them rich gifts — no doubt including the gold plate which he took from his treasures and held aloft to attract the saint 's attention during the storm . |
| 11 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 12 | This may be invention , for the propaganda value of possessing a saint courted thus by a king renowned for his piety is obvious ; but if not , and taken together with the Encomiast 's statement that Cnut visited St Omer while on pilgrimage to Rome , a journey in which he embarked from somewhere near Canterbury ( maybe Sandwich ) and sailed to Flanders seems a distinct possibility . |
| 13 | Josselin 's reputation is based on the detailed diary which he kept from 5 August 1644 until a few days before his death . |
| 14 | ‘ Ferkin ell , ’ he says , in a special humorous artificial voice which he uses from time to time with Phil , to ward off jokes he has not entirely understood . |
| 15 | His relationship with David also was a good one , in which he benefited from the older man 's advice and experience . |
| 16 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 17 | These can be thought of in terms of seven organizational imperatives , which he derives from a larger set constructed by Jacques ( 1989 ) . |
| 18 | From boyhood Roberts displayed a brilliant and self-tutored mathematical brain and a rapacious appetite for radio knowledge , much of which he absorbed from the journal Wireless World and in public libraries . |
| 19 | In addition to his profit on the plants which he brought from his nursery , he charged the Purefoys 1/6d. for a day 's labour in 1739 [ Eland , 1 , 94 ] , a rate that would have lifted his family to relative security , though certainly not prosperity . |
| 20 | The ease with which he passes from provincial gaucheries to suave Franco-Italianate portraiture , which made him painter to King George III , is fully recorded . |
| 21 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |
| 22 | ‘ Dialectic ’ is a term which he borrows from Hegel but which he uses in a very different sense to Hegel 's . |
| 23 | In order to do this Althusser arms himself with a method for dealing with his material which he borrows from hermeneutics . |
| 24 | Where documents of title are involved it will usually turn out that the buyer transfers to his sub-purchaser the same document of title which he received from his seller . |
| 25 | Roskill J said that B was in breach of an implied duty in : ( a ) not communicating to the plaintiffs ' board the information which he received from the patent agents and in taking no steps to protect the plaintiffs against possible consequences of the existence of the patent ; and ( b ) using information regarding the patent for his own benefit . |
| 26 | This was a middle-aged man who had been involved in a road accident after which he suffered from headaches , difficulty in walking , and a total lack of sleep . |
| 27 | He hurried through the open doorway into the house and a few seconds later reappeared carrying a rifle which he passed from one hand to the other as |
| 28 | He 's was a fireman and a soldier before starting up a contract cleaning business which he ran from home . |
| 29 | Of the covenants by the tenant running with the land that " to pay rent or taxes " and " not to assign or underlet , " and by the landlord running with the reversion , " to renew the lease " are the most apposite of the instances which he quotes from decided cases . |
| 30 | Marx referred throughout his work to other systems than the capitalist system , especially those which he knew from the history of Europe to have preceded capitalism ; systems such as feudalism , where the relation of production was characterized by the personal relation of the feudal lord and his serf and a relation of subordination which came from the lord 's control of the land . |