Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But the books which he took from the shelves in those stolen hours in the school library were history and biography and political science .
2 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 ’ .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The first crew removed the bodies of three of the airmen , but Raymond removed the body of the navigator , P/O McFarlane and took from him , his identity papers and personal papers which he concealed from the Germans and later passed to the French Resistance .
7 Yet while his wife slept one afternoon he found himself looking in cardboard boxes in the attic for blackout curtains which he remembered from the War .
8 Ian found this offensive but , given the amount and type of information which he wanted from the man , he did n't want to antagonise him .
9 A pair of india-rubber gloves was purchased from Messrs. Anthony and Son for the nurses ' use at a cost of 8s. which he claimed from the Board , with Dr. Phillips ' fee of one guinea for a further anaesthetic , when an old dislocation of the shoulder was reduced .
10 By the time these cases were heard Mettingham had replaced the disgraced Thomas de Weyland [ q.v. ] as chief justice of the Common Bench , a post which he held from the beginning of 1290 until the time of his death .
11 Green had to settle , temporarily perhaps , for 20 per cent of Central TV , which he bought from the betting group Ladbroke in 1987 .
12 This case did not involve any charge over property but involved a wife becoming jointly liable with her husband on a loan which he obtained from the bank for business purposes .
13 She was n't blind , like the stiff-backed goddess of Justice whom he remembered from the pediment of the courthouse in New York , beside the flagpole flying the Stars and Stripes .
14 Some of them he did from the Grünewald in Colmar .
15 That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them .
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