Example sentences of "he [verb] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with money he made from oil trading in Nigeria , a series of quick-fire deals and massive development work in Cornwall , he has built a fortune of around £75 million . |
| 2 | Well I suppose he might have asked some of the fitters , but I doubt it somehow seeing some of the acquisitions that he made from Llanberis when they were closing down there . |
| 3 | He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail . |
| 4 | He commissioned from Beneš of Weitmil the Cronica Ecclesiae Pragensis , and the History of Bohemia from the Italian Giovanni di Marignola . |
| 5 | His Grace , King Alexander III , was killed when he plunged from Kinghorn Ness on the night of the 18th March . |
| 6 | A publisher had asked him to explain , some quarter of a century after the event , how he passed from scepticism to religious belief . |
| 7 | He became enormously excited and , as the rest of the party started back towards us with a huge mound of lavatory paper balanced on the ravioli , he hopped from foot to foot , clutching my arm . |
| 8 | His skeletal body clothed in dirty rags looked grotesque as he hopped from foot to foot , to the mocking laughter of the tinkers . |
| 9 | ‘ This is immensely interesting , ’ he murmurs from time to time . |
| 10 | He realized from Carolyn 's face that it did . |
| 11 | This he expected from Turnour 's voice , manner and the way he looked as he was sitting . |
| 12 | He became from Hetton-le-Hole , a quaintly named colliery village in north east County Durham and played as a back for Ferryhill and later Eppleton in the Wearside league which , at that time , was a prolific nursery for Football League clubs . |
| 13 | POLICE were waiting to interview Chester 's former town crier yesterday as he recovered from burns after setting himself alight . |
| 14 | ROBERT DUNLOP made it a treble when he led from start to finish to take the second 250cc race . |
| 15 | TOM McKean completed a wonderful weekend for Scottish athletics when he led from gun to tape to take the 800 metres crown . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | It was the sense of another world which drew him ; the sense he got from MacDonald ( a convert to Broad Church Anglicanism from Congregationalism ) of Heaven being penetrable through dreams and the subconscious and the exercise of the imagination . |
| 20 | She remembered the smell as he tipped out the bag of manure he got from Tandy 's every now and then , and the way she would hold her nose and shout ‘ Pooh ! ’ , and he would laugh and call her Miss Dainty Socks . |
| 21 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 22 | Indeed he makes a most ravishing , alluring sound on his ‘ Mackenzie ’ Stradivarius ( believe me , a Strad in the wrong [ even experienced ] hands can be absolutely appalling ) , plays with commendably secure intonation , and communicates an evident enthusiasm for the music in hand , well matched by the sensitive support he receives from Devos . |
| 23 | In simple terms , the surgeon supervises and controls the robot from a computer terminal , using information that he receives from sensors at the tool-end of the robot , known as the end-effector . |
| 24 | When he read from Mr Thackeray 's Book of Snobs , choosing the ‘ Great City Snob ’ as his text , imitating the while Sir Thomas 's mannerism of impatiently snapping his fingers and clasping his lapel , followed by his grave walk , hands behind back , no one had had the least doubt as to whom was meant . |
| 25 | The hostility he encountered from Washington was far more deep-rooted and systematic than anything he had experienced in London . |
| 26 | Mr Overbye describes the changes in theory and observation accurately , engagingly and enthusiastically , though his prose is occasionally Doppler-shifted towards the purple as he dashes from subject to subject . |
| 27 | He joins from Touche Ross where he worked in corporate finance . |
| 28 | Software engineering house LBMS has appointed Stephen Jermyn to head up its UK CASE sales operations : he joins from Ernst & Young where he was managing director . |
| 29 | Unify Corp has appointed Reza Mikailli as senior vice-president of product development : he joins from Informix , where he was in charge of development of Informix On-Line . |
| 30 | Unify Corp has appointed Reza Mikailli as senior vice president of product development : he joins from Informix , where he was responsible for development of Informix On-Line . |