Example sentences of "[noun sg] that had [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | OPEN SECRET Pat Metheny Back in the late '60s , the term ‘ fusion ’ was coined as a means to mischievously re-classify a form of jazz that had strayed away from the mainstream towards the outlawed territories of rock music . |
| 2 | But with part of her mind — the part that had stood back from their embrace — she was dimly aware that she had almost wanted to believe the worst . |
| 3 | For Philip said that board , thick papers , " something , should be put under the tank to raise it , because of some tricky protruding pipes , and Jasper , seeing the stacks of newspaper that had come down from the attic , swiftly gathered them up and built them , while he knelt there beside it , into an eighteen-inch-high platform . |
| 4 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 5 | The tree was gleaming green with new foliage that had broken out from the charred branches of the first encounter between the English and the islanders . |
| 6 | When the river broadened , the Avignon began to encounter other craft that had started downstream from Saigon on the favourable tide , and Joseph wondered why the battered-looking Chinese junks , with their shabby , patched sails , did n't sink as they lumbered past among a succession of grimy workhorse freighters from Europe and Latin America . |
| 7 | She crouched and picked up part of the brickwork that had crumbled away from a supporting pillar . |
| 8 | At the end of the Civil War roughly one-quarter of a million roved around the Ukraine , a region that had suffered greatly from the hostilities . |