Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 2 | He recently won a Be Proud Award , and the accolades he received from customers were quite outstanding . |
| 3 | Dr Alan Stewart describes how in six weeks he suffered from headaches , nausea , loss of libido , and physical and mental fatigue as his levels of vitamin B and zinc fell quickly . |
| 4 | He commented patronisingly that almost the only sounds he heard from Baldwin during Cabinets were the rhythmic sucking of his pipe . |
| 5 | With his teachers he salvaged from oblivion many of the Swahili poets , notably the Mombasa poet , Bwana Muyaka . |
| 6 | Piaget would ask the children a question about thinking , and note down the answers he got from six-year-olds , from eight-year-olds and from children of eleven or twelve . |
| 7 | He has also welcomed Mr Major 's decision to ditch many of the policies he inherited from Lady Thatcher . |
| 8 | When Mr Engelberger appeared on television in 1967 with one of his earliest robots , the only calls he got from Americans were from showbiz agents trying to book his ‘ act ’ . |
| 9 | Herzen observed a " sharp and remarkable " difference between essays he received from Russia in 1856 and those that had arrived in 1855 . |
| 10 | It had been a strange experience and he had felt how different this magical rite seemed compared with the church services he remembered from home . |
| 11 | More important , my father had learned the theory as well as the practice of ‘ wireless telephony ’ , so he was that rare individual , a man who could offer practical advice on how best to use the components he bought from Marconi 's , Cossor , Edison-Swan , Oldham Batteries and other suppliers . |