Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] from [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 2 | She had graduated from dancing to small parts at the Winter Gardens but because there was difficulty in getting money out of certain managements in Berlin , she was now a non-dancing Captain . |
| 3 | She had refrained from criticizing Natasha , far less condemning her . |
| 4 | The car swung to the right and pulled on to the verge , and he swung towards Caroline , his eyes blazing with such anger that she had to keep from cringing into the corner . |
| 5 | As we descended it became increasingly hot , and in the space of two hours we had dropped from rolling grassy hills to a sandy , semi-desert plain . |
| 6 | The women , who had lost their craft specialisation , had few opportunities to develop any new specialisms and so lost the independence and prestige they had had from making cotton lengths . |
| 7 | The confidence he had gained from having a loving wife was being undermined by a feeling of rejection from the public . |
| 8 | The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink . |
| 9 | In that first parliament of his , immediately after his coronation , he had refrained from asking for money , had even prided himself on his princely forbearance , and believed it had won him friends and trust . |
| 10 | She knew that her father did not exactly approve of her lifestyle , but he had refrained from saying anything to her because he doted on her . |
| 11 | His tonsure had grown out raggedly , and grown out white as ash , and the six-weeks-old beard he had acquired from living wild was streaked with grey . |
| 12 | He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released . |
| 13 | Although he became critical of the methods of the old bone-setters , and especially of their views on diseases of the joints , he had learned from watching his father 's manipulative practices , and in his workshop he followed their practice of making their own splints . |