Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas Day was fairly quiet for the family that year on account of the fact that the old man had n't returned from the front as the officer had promised . |
| 2 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 3 | His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies . |
| 4 | In point of fact , in terms of Catholic tradition , the challenges here might be less awkward than those of phase 2 ( and to some extent John Paul II was able to recognize this ) , but the crucial ecclesiastical issue once more ( as in phase 1 ) had become the acceptability of diversity , and the curial mind had never escaped from the conviction that unity requires uniformity . |
| 5 | Not only that , the living form had hardly changed from its Silurian predecessor ( see p. 77 ) . |