Sentence examples for he captured from from inspiring English sources

He had three illegitimate children, one of whom – Dido Elizabeth Belle – was born to an African slave he captured from a Spanish ship in the West Indies.

He created an empire that stretched from the Oxus to the Indus valley and the Indian Ocean; in the west he captured (from the Būyids) the Iranian cities of Rayy and Hamadan.

Mr. Mesairy was a familiar neighborhood policeman who had sought to hide in his parked car as Mr. Morsi's supporters fled past, according to Mr. Sheikh and video footage he captured from his window.

Instead he captures from close proximity a self-made community that, despite its distance and difficulties, actually resembles the rest of the world in a surprising number of ways.

During his second term as Louisiana commandant, he captured Pensacola from the Spanish and instituted a strict "Black Code" regulating the conduct of black slaves.

However, the Dutch journalist Martijn Hendriks has claimed on Twitter that he captured data from Démare's Strava file before it was suddenly deleted.

He went on the Crusade with his uncle, Bohemond (the future Bohemond I of Antioch), and first distinguished himself in Cilicia, where he captured Tarsus from the Turks and came into conflict with his fellow Crusader, Baldwin of Boulogne.

He was also able to prove that though he may been mocked for his adventures — when it emerged that a tiger he "captured" was from a zoo and that ancient amphorae he "discovered" on a dive were planted — he was not deceived.

He captured two emissaries from the south, en route to London to establish diplomatic ties.

To widespread astonishment, not least his own, he captured the seat from the Conservatives, and at age 23 he entered the House of Commons as its youngest member.

Eliassen said he captured the sight from Meløy, Nordland, in Norway.