Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates . |
| 2 | Sir Ranulph 's weight had dropped from 14 to 10 stones and he and Dr Stroud , 37 , had only just recovered from the low blood sugar condition hypoglycaemia . |
| 3 | Here the drill rig , which after numerous delays had only recently arrived from the mining camps of Northern Quebec , was boring downwards at a rate of about 30 m per day . |
| 4 | The manor house in Hampshire had long since passed from the family , the fortune was diminished ; but Sir Hugo 's long and melancholy face framed by a collar of exquisite lace still stared with arrogant condescension at the passing crowd , the definitive seventeenth-century Royalist gentleman . |
| 5 | But how could the Templars , operating in the early twelfth century , have acquired such familiarity with a cryptographic system dating from a thousand years before , whose practitioners had apparently long vanished from the stage of history ? |
| 6 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 7 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 8 | The creatures of the field , unprotected as they were , had yet less to fear from the night , being part of it . |
| 9 | He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived . |
| 10 | Perhaps she had never quite recovered from the efforts to please she had made then . |
| 11 | She was profoundly upset and had never really recovered from the shock . |
| 12 | My mother , whose heart had never fully recovered from the shock of losing Tata , retired to the suburbs to live with Aunt Harriet in Romford . |