Example sentences of "[noun pl] i had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 2 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 3 | My usual script looks like demented knitting , but among my manuscripts I am still surprised to find poem drafts and diary entries in neat italic calligraphy , painstakingly produced with a special calligraphic pen , or ‘ disguised ’ and back-sloping hands , or the ‘ progressive ’ styles I had copied from my art students in Corsham . |
| 4 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 5 | I would never again speak of sin , certainly not to Lili , for one of the messages I had gathered from her speech was that it would bore her . |
| 6 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 7 | ‘ It clarified one of the things I had said from the start . |
| 8 | I slipped into the great four-poster bed , whispered a few French endearments I had learnt from a wench and set to with a will . |
| 9 | This included one of the most severe letters I had seen from his pen . |
| 10 | Hewlett , I rashly said I would send him some of the letters I had received from him . |