Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Donning a pair of small round plastic spectacles which he had extracted from a hidden pocket in the skirts of his frock-coat , he shambled over to the porter 's desk and ferreted around . |
| 2 | This amiable young man greeted me enthusiastically and informed me that he would be driving me himself , in his motor car which he had brought from Finland . |
| 3 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 4 | From it , Kirov drew out a slim sheaf of black and white photographs of the young pilot , and a single sheet of personal notes which he had compiled from their conversations . |
| 5 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 6 | Florrie was affectionately known as ‘ Hairpin' Axford through her use of a large hairpin which she had removed from her hair on more than one occasion to ‘ make a point ’ , as she herself described it . |
| 7 | B left in the theatre some detachable electric lamps which he had hired from A. |
| 8 | ‘ It is the finest nursery for sailors in the world ’ , Ransome wrote , after a successful cruise with his wife Evgenia in a small una-rigged cabin yacht which they had hired from Herbert Wood 's boatyard at Potter Heigham in 1931 . |
| 9 | Una , his 10-year-old which collected breed honours at the 1991 Royal Welsh Show , is the daughter of a cow which he had imported from France during the build up his herd of 45 breeding cows at Drysgolgoch , Llanfyrnach . |
| 10 | R. Kempt in " Convivial Caledonia " ( London 1893 ) gives a short account of the Islay Parliament which he had extracted from an account by Dr D. Anderson in the Scots Magazine of the previous year . |
| 11 | R. Kempt in " Convivial Caledonia " ( London 1893 ) gives a short account of the Islay Parliament which he had extracted from an account by Dr D. Anderson in the Scots Magazine of the previous year . |
| 12 | Acknowledging this they presented the Club with an engraved silver rose bowl in 1984 in appreciation of some 15 years of play at Henley which they had chosen from the Daily Telegraph Book on Golf Courses ! |
| 13 | Accordingly an injunction against the defendant fulfilling any contract with any person named on a card index which he had obtained from his former employer was discharged , the court saying it was bound to limit the period to one year at the longest . |
| 14 | To this information about Asia Marx added knowledge of the Inca which he had gathered from Prescott 's famous study , The Conquest of Peru , a remarkable book which came out in 1847 and whose instant fame had a dramatic impact on nineteenth-century thought . |
| 15 | Wunis , a young oil company official , was to some extent moved by indignation about the deceitfulness of the government ; he was also perhaps self-consciously applying those notions of good efficient management which he had gained from his oil company training : decisions about expenditure have to be made in a context of opportunity costs , of an overview of expenditure as a whole . |
| 16 | There is no evidence that Roe 's men worked on the westerly , Paddy End , workings which they had acquired from Tissington . |
| 17 | Freud originally used the technique of hypnosis which he had adopted from a friend of his , Joseph Breuer , with whom he wrote ‘ Studies in Hysteria ’ . |
| 18 | The Moderator laid on the table a letter dated 4th July which he had received from Mr Sutherland and which having , been read was by unanimous order of the Session thrown over the table . |
| 19 | Temple had enthusiasm , he had theories about pop culture and the importance of the teenager ; above all , he had some equipment which he had borrowed from the National Film School . |
| 20 | Her father , ruling duke of Celle ( exchanged for Hanover which he had governed from 1648 ) since 1665 , was not married to Eléonore at the time of their daughter 's birth , but , by military and diplomatic services to the Holy Roman Emperor , he obtained the legitimization of Sophia Dorothea and in 1675 the legal marriage of her parents was permitted . |
| 21 | In the second column they insert the corresponding estimates for NAIRU which they had extracted from a variety of empirical studies . |
| 22 | We inspected everything , from the plumbing arrangements to the cornices and architraves , entirely ‘ new ’ ideas which he had gleaned from his trips to Europe . |
| 23 | That case was distinguished in Charter v. Sullivan ( 1957 C.A. ) where the buyer refused to accept a Hillman Mini which he had ordered from a trader . |
| 24 | Alexei allowed himself to dwell upon the knowledge which he had retained from that long-ago survey briefing . |
| 25 | The knowledge which I had acquired from the LCCIEB was so relevant that I enjoyed the course tremendously . |
| 26 | Keeling 's expulsion was particularly linked to a report in the Financial Times of June 27 , which claimed that Nigeria had already spent more than half the windfall earnings which it had received from higher oil prices during the Gulf crisis . |
| 27 | In the first case ( Anderton v. Burnside ) the defendant had removed the price label from a joint of meat and replaced it with a label showing a lesser price which he had removed from another joint . |
| 28 | While they drank to celebrate the arrangement , Mrs Corney told Mr Bumble about old Sally 's death , and the unknown gold object which she had stolen from the dead body of the young woman . |
| 29 | With the good weather our thoughts turned seaward and at Whitsun we launched our nine foot dinghy which we had brought from England . |
| 30 | So the one issue remaining on Woolwich 's writ of summons came to be whether or not Woolwich had grounds for claiming interest on the three payments which they had made from their respective dates up to 31 July 1987 . |