Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 2 | At the beginning of 1981 I had been promoted from Minister of Transport to Secretary of State . |
| 3 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |
| 4 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 5 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 6 | In its guidelines on the DMS and other ‘ courses for managers ’ issued in 1979 the Council defined access to the Diploma — which had been seen from the outset as a postgraduate award — in terms of flexible entry : in addition to the broad treatment of management studies and its supporting disciplines it incorporated |
| 7 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 8 | It was agreed that 75 per cent of the Italian government 's credits to the former Soviet Union granted in 1990 , which had been delayed from December [ see p. 38656 ] , would go to Russia . |
| 9 | Edward II , however , had no intention of keeping the promises which had been extorted from him . |
| 10 | The regular freighter from Denmark had docked and along the quayside barges were moored , filled with coconuts and spices which had been transshipped from the large Oriental freighters at the Royal group of docks downriver . |
| 11 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 12 | So the Collector had arranged that the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , should be at his side in the most central part of the Residency ready to wield the Church bell which had been toppled from its tower earlier in the siege and which only he was strong enough to lift . |
| 13 | Also on Oct. 25 the European Commission of Human Rights issued a preliminary opinion in favour of three British newspapers which had been prevented from publishing excerpts from Spycatcher , a controversial book about the UK counterintelligence service written by former agent Peter Wright . |
| 14 | Adenauer was also pleased that soon afterwards , in October 1955 , the people of the coal-rich Saar , which had been separated from Germany in 1946 ( at French insistence ) , rejected French plans for their future . |
| 15 | The house surgeon received £3.3s.0d. for attending a coroner 's inquest on a patient who had died in the infirmary , and Samuel Whitbread , in his capacity as magistrate , exacted contributions from time to time : in August 1813 , for example , the infirmary funds benefited by £10 which had been received from John Schoner and William Edwards ‘ paid in atonement to stay of prosecution for disturbing the Methodist meeting at Biggleswade during Divine Service ’ . |
| 16 | Pauline read a letter which had been received from Bob Bascombe thanking the Society for the flowers sent to June . |
| 17 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 18 | Most of the latter ( except Stopes 's five clinics ) affiliated with the Family Planning Association which had been formed from the National Birth Control Association in 1939 . |
| 19 | Glass-fibre quilt insulation was laid between them and , following the application of roofing felt , new timber roofing battens were fixed to accept the sound slates which had been salvaged from the original construction . |
| 20 | He wore his best suit which had been redeemed from the pawnbrokers and was freshly cleaned and pressed . |
| 21 | According to Dowie ( 1977 ) , this auto-company sold the Pinto model for a period of six years even though they knew from their own test researchers that the product , which had been rushed from design to production in the short period of twenty-five months instead of the planned forty-three , was dangerous . |
| 22 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
| 23 | Second , would assessments which had been made from the age of 11 up to 16 be reflected in the record of each student 's achievement at the age of 16 plus ? |
| 24 | In the March 1991 legislative elections Tahoeraa Huiraatira — the opposition party led by Flosse which had been ousted from government in December 1987 , after controlling the territory 's government since March 1982 — captured 18 of the 41 seats in the Territorial Assembly . |
| 25 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |
| 26 | Such developments gradually overcame the popular fear of water in general and of the ocean and drowning in particular which had been inherited from the Middle Ages . |
| 27 | Members of the group , which had been barred from entering Taiwan , were in Taipei to inaugurate WUFI 's Taiwan chapter . |
| 28 | Iraq , which had been barred from exporting oil since its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , was permitted to attend the sixth ministerial meeting . |
| 29 | Broken glass and china lay everywhere , littered across the torn remains of the carpet which had been ripped from the stairs . |
| 30 | At the diet of princes in Frankfurt ( 1147 ) he demanded the return of Bavaria , which had been taken from his father by Emperor Conrad III and bestowed upon an Austrian vassal . |