Example sentences of "[pers pn] had receive from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett , I rashly said I would send him some of the letters I had received from him . |
| 2 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 3 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 4 | The Scottish National Party Euro-MP for the Highlands and Islands , Winnie Ewing , wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland , detailing some of the correspondence she had received from worried parents . |
| 5 | No doubt that was due to the ticking off she had received from that strict harridan of a teacher at the small private school in Kensington . |
| 6 | Of all things most precious to her , it was the wedding ring she had received from Nader . |
| 7 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 8 | She must have been mad to consider the possibility , especially after the emotional battering she had received from Giles . |
| 9 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I expect so , dear , ’ her mother replied , quite obviously thrilled at the lovely long letter she had received from her adored son . |
| 11 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |
| 12 | Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians . |
| 13 | The broadcasters were happy with the quality of the pictures ( though not with the sound ) and with the service they had received from CCTV , and the Committee was happy that the coverage of committees had been carried out both efficiently and resourcefully , and — for the most part — with sensitivity to the needs of committees . |
| 14 | Despite her eccentricity and the fact that they could n't help laughing at her , the Girls would readily acknowledge that she gave them as much , if not more , affection than they had received from their own parents . |
| 15 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 16 | The reasoning offered by the court centred on the fact that such persons had special access to inside information which arose from communications they had received from primary insiders . |
| 17 | A party of soldiers arrived at the inn ; the travellers had earlier met them road-building between Fort Augustus and Anoch and in deference to the hospitality they had received from Mr Trapaud , Johnson and Boswell gave the men cash to buy drink — which now they did . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Furnas insisted that the most recent stoppage was for routine maintenance until Greenpeace made public information about the incident that it had received from a worker at the plant , later confirmed by the Brazilian nuclear energy commission . |
| 21 | One of the first he had received from Sloane reported on a new hothouse at Chelsea and listed the exotics already growing there . |
| 22 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 23 | We did not therefore send off the telegram he had drafted to Molotov , more especially as he had received from Eden a cold and almost minatory minute just before the Cabinet began . |
| 24 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 25 | He felt , with some justification , that he had received from Transvaal a raw deal for his loyalty , and he moved to Bloemfontein . |
| 26 | That situation was to change when USAAC General Hap Arnold decided , based upon information he had received from the British about a new aircraft power source , to get the Air Corps involved in jets . |
| 27 | The fifth client whose outcome was not adopted was a man who was dissatisfied with the service he had received from a computer dating service . |
| 28 | He was concerned about de Gaulle 's anti-Americanism , but was pleased by the support he had received from the French leader in 1958–61 over the Berlin crises with Russia . |
| 29 | After he had sent off this AC/189 , Gen McCreery took steps to deal with the second signal he had received from Gen Keightley that morning , the 0.413 in which Keightley had reported in more detail on the imminent arrival in Austria of the 300,000 German and 200,000 Croat troops , and had asked for authorization to accept the surrender of these forces as " formed bodies " . |
| 30 | 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 . |