Example sentences of "he [vb past] from [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snubs and indignities that he received from that quarter have passed into Gaullist lore : when he so much as enquired about the progress of the assembly 's constitutional commission , one of his own former ministers told him it was none of his business . |
| 2 | One lesson he identified from this experience was that ‘ the demand response to prices is relatively inelastic in the short term ’ . |
| 3 | While he returned from that campaign with greater maturity , even his best friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition . |
| 4 | He considered his notes ; what he needed from this interview was to confirm that Angela Morgan had not been in the office on Saturday , and a statement of Peter Yeo 's movements over the period within which Angela Morgan had probably been killed . |
| 5 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 6 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 7 | What he learned from that experience is that the aspirations and ambitions , for which Labour could not stand , has not yet found a voice ; to these aspirations the right kind of Tory message could be addressed . |
| 8 | He learned from those guys he caddied for , sophisticated stuff too . |
| 9 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 10 | He had also clocked up 34 years as a retained firefighter when he retired from that job two years ago . |
| 11 | He became a life peer when he retired from that post and was appointed deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords in 1982 , an office he relinquished only two years ago . |