Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] from [noun] " 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 | The answer is clear : it owes to the biological presuppositions which he takes from Aristotle . |
| 3 | Before that it is worth reiterating Althusser 's holistic view of the individual , and introducing an analogy which he takes from Marx . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In order to do this Althusser arms himself with a method for dealing with his material which he borrows from hermeneutics . |
| 8 | ‘ Dialectic ’ is a term which he borrows from Hegel but which he uses in a very different sense to Hegel 's . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 's was a fireman and a soldier before starting up a contract cleaning business which he ran from home . |
| 11 | He bustled her back to the Land Rover and raided the squad 's provision box which he knew from experience would contain thick sandwiches and hot nourishing drinks . |
| 12 | His fate would depend entirely upon her mood , which he knew from experience could shift and change in the winking of an eye . |
| 13 | Nicknamed ‘ The Soap ’ for the ease with which he escaped from custody , Fargette was apparently trying to expand his hold over the area in and around Toulon where he was in control of numerous gambling bars and night clubs . |
| 14 | Later the same year he became president of the left-oriented Democratic Revolutionary Front ( the political wing of the FMLN ) , which he led from exile in Panama until 1987 . |
| 15 | The only thing he had to eat was his piece of bread and some water which he begged from houses near the road . |
| 16 | His ‘ Dirty toys ’ , as he describes his arrangements of battered dolls and stuffed animals which he rescues from thrift shops , were included in last autumn 's ‘ Objects for the Ideal Home ’ at the Serpentine Gallery and in the Hayward Gallery 's recent ‘ Doubletake ’ , but neither occasion gave a complete or convincing account of the range of his interests . |
| 17 | He embarked on his hobby three years ago and sells examples at modest prices to recover the cost of materials , some of which he buys from America and Germany . |
| 18 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 19 | Barron bought forty acres for a nursery site in nearby Borrowash , to which he moved from Elvaston in 1865 . |
| 20 | His pride and joy is the splendid wood-lined copper which he bought from Brendan Dobbin at the West Coast Brewery in Manchester . |
| 21 | Returning from Canton in May 1817 , Jardine gave up medicine for commerce , which he learned from Thomas Weeding , a London merchant and EIC agent . |
| 22 | Callahan picked on one he recognized from photos . |
| 23 | David Greenland , of North Terrace , Gainford , said Sturdy , whom he knew from school , offered him a deal which he thought would boost trade and which he could terminate if he wanted to . |
| 24 | But then I mean come and saw me once , you see , when I was n't there like that and he he tested from top to bottom , he said well ar ar after we sit and talked , and like he said well I better give you the once over , I said th er , certainly . |
| 25 | He he he jumped from Lady Furbishers bed to straight into Wallis 's did n't he . |
| 26 | That was what he chose from Robinson 's wide repertoire , which included ‘ Swiss Chalet ’ style and even ‘ Norman ’ . |
| 27 | Halfway through the rehearsals Arthur started to feel anxious , and after nights of floundering he concluded that he should stop trying to put aside what he knew from music hall . |
| 28 | Even so , he had learned a lot , keeping what he knew from Spatz and his cronies . |
| 29 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |
| 30 | Luke Calder was used to getting what he wanted from life , and the last thing she needed was for him to turn his sights on to her , even though it might only be to put her back in her place ! |