Sentence examples for learnt of his from inspiring English sources

His family learnt of his problems only after his death.

His family learnt of his arrest through an anonymous phone call.

It was only the next day in the office that colleagues learnt of his death.

Bizarrely, the former president of the European Commission learnt of his candidacy at a UN conference in Mali.

He specifially rejected "today's headlines" that Dr Kelly only learnt of his fate in a "46 second phone call", saying that it was not the "crude length" which counted.

Controversially, they had learnt of his identity from interrogations of detainees in Guantanamo.

Nelson Mandela's daughter Zindzi learnt of her father's death while watching the royal premiere in London of Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, which chronicles his life.

She confidently announces that "much can be learnt of a man from his choice of books," and then unwittingly contradicts herself by adding that Pushkin, like many other Russians of his class, read mostly in French: "The ancient classics, the Bible, Dante, Machiavelli, Luther, Shakespeare, Leibnitz, Byron... all are predominantly in French".

And when the husband, that same revered sage, learnt of the unfortunate suffering of his wife, he not only abandoned her but also cursed her for failing to be a good wife.

When the Scyths came to Sparta on this errand Cleomenes was with them continually; and growing somewhat too familiar, learnt of them to drink his wine without water, a practice which is thought by the Spartans to have caused his madness.

While there, Hitler learnt of Germany's defeat, and by his own account on receiving this news, he suffered a second bout of blindness.