Example sentences of "[pron] they had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18th , January 1912 , Captain Robert Falcon Scott , and his colleagues , reached the South Pole to find that Amundsen had reached there before them , and the whole party perished in appalling weather on their return journey to their ship Terra Nova , in which they had sailed from England in 1910 . |
| 2 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 3 | In the second column they insert the corresponding estimates for NAIRU which they had extracted from a variety of empirical studies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | There is no evidence that Roe 's men worked on the westerly , Paddy End , workings which they had acquired from Tissington . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Someone stepped on a loose plank in the alley down which they had come from the bridge , and the timber squealed . |
| 9 | All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners . |
| 10 | In other words , branches agreed to retain less than before of what they had collected from students , and if necessary raise extra funds through special events . |
| 11 | Using what they had discovered from their visit to Bourbourg and official sources , Helen and Brian Attwell were able to piece together the last moments of Beaufort I L4508 . |
| 12 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |