Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 2 | It should not be despised , Bombay talkies , any more than Mizoguchi despised the melodrama he took from the Kabuki theatre . |
| 3 | The fee charged by the agent is , naturally enough , directly proportional to the compensation he gleans from the public authority on behalf of his client . |
| 4 | The journey took him to Harwich , then Norwich , where he tried unsuccessfully to get the medication he needed from the local hospital . |
| 5 | And for the rest of his life he recoiled from the popular mission and missioner . |
| 6 | Redmond was overwhelmed by the support he received from the British public during and since the Olympics and asked to send a message through the Daily Mirror . |
| 7 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 8 | His unchecked activities are thought to derive from the strong support he enjoys from the Serbian government , which is either unwilling or unable to deactivate him . |
| 9 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 10 | A shopkeeper has made a poster out of a letter he received from the Prime Minister 's office expressing optimism about the state of the economy . |
| 11 | A shopkeeper has made a poster out of a letter he received from the Prime Minister 's office expressing optimism about the state of the economy . |
| 12 | This image he inherited from the fourth-century teaching of Gregory of Nyssa , the most influential among those who earlier developed this negative approach to Christian mystical theology . |
| 13 | The hard and expensive lesson he learnt from the sorry business was that the game could do without him . |
| 14 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 15 | That is in addition to keeping any deposit he obtained from the original buyer ( see paragraph 2–17 above ) . |
| 16 | Corals quote The Fellow as 11-8 favourite , a position he inherited from the injured Remittance Man , with Bradbury Star 7-2 . |
| 17 | Monday marked the first time he spoke from the Oval Office , sitting at John F Kennedy 's desk , on a national holiday celebrating George Washington 's birthday . |
| 18 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |