Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 2 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 3 | I did n't know about the woman and thought he 'd chipped from the left-hand side of the fairway to the right-hand side . |
| 4 | The heights he recorded varied from the tiny Shetland bull standing at only 97cm , up to the large , improved Holderness Shorthorn bull at an immense 152cm ( with a record-breaking 168cm in the ox ) . |
| 5 | In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division . |
| 6 | He had retired from the Royal Navy in April 1955 at the age of 46 , but had maintained informal contacts with the intelligence fraternity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had seen from the Select Committee 's Report that Scott had studied the Greek and Italian styles as well as Gothic and , being ‘ a person of great talent ’ , he hoped he would put ‘ a more lively and enlightened front to his buildings ’ . |
| 9 | On that day , twenty-seven days earlier , he had travelled from the Syrian Embassy back to his rented home in Kingston-upon-Thames , and there he had , for the first time , informed his wife of their changed circumstances . |
| 10 | From a free-kick on the left , Gannon swung the ball deep and Morris , not as heavy as he had appeared from the previous half-hour , made the game safe with a soaring header . |
| 11 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 12 | In the 64th minute Gascoigne performed a similar duty for England but , after he had crossed from the right-hand byline , Newell rose to head past Lekovic , the substitute goalkeeper . |
| 13 | The tie he had unearthed from the neglected depths of his jacket pocket was badly creased and stained with what he strongly suspected to be taramosalata . |
| 14 | That situation was to change when USAAC General Hap Arnold decided , based upon information he had received from the British about a new aircraft power source , to get the Air Corps involved in jets . |
| 15 | He was concerned about de Gaulle 's anti-Americanism , but was pleased by the support he had received from the French leader in 1958–61 over the Berlin crises with Russia . |
| 16 | To reduce this the hearing aid wearer will turn down the volume of his aid , and would therefore lose the amplification he had gained from the Audio Telescope . |
| 17 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
| 18 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 19 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 20 | He had resigned from the Military Council in April 1989 and had subsequently been arrested and charged with illegal possession of arms and ammunition . |
| 21 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 22 | He could n't keep his hands off women , and most likely , under his brown flawless skin , he was riddled with disease — disease he had caught from the soft , unwholesome flesh of nameless women . |
| 23 | Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station . |
| 24 | In Suger s case , this power was given sharper focus by its place at the apex of the terrestrial hierarchy ; for , as he had learned from the presumed patron of his monastery , Pseudo-Dionysius , this was the proper ordering of earthly political authority . |
| 25 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 26 | Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries . |
| 27 | Temple had enthusiasm , he had theories about pop culture and the importance of the teenager ; above all , he had some equipment which he had borrowed from the National Film School . |
| 28 | They were some of the men he had borrowed from the local District Chief . |