Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 2 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 3 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 4 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 5 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 6 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 7 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 8 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 9 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 10 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 11 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 12 | Many of the older people found it difficult to throw off the ‘ criminal , associations which had carried over from the fifties and sixties . |
| 13 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 14 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 15 | At 0748hrs Zeros and Val dive-bombers which had taken off from the Soryu attacked . |
| 16 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 17 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 18 | She might be willing to give me , as the tenant of the former Mackay home , the details she had kept back from Ann and Megan . |
| 19 | She had gone on from the Noble Order of Lady Queen Bees ' meeting to a party given by one of the members , and was by now tired , cross and a little tipsy . |
| 20 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 21 | The ferry was not big , but she dwarfed the harbour — she had to stand off from the jetty and land us by boat — and indeed the village . |
| 22 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 23 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
| 24 | She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks . |
| 25 | She had found out from Angy 's relatives that she was living in the area and had secretly taken the opportunity of getting in touch with her . |
| 26 | She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again , Guy realised . |
| 27 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 28 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 29 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 30 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |