Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |
| 2 | I knew I was n't the only victim because I had heard complaints from others ; the fruiterer who saw his apples disappear from the box in front of the shop , the grocer who unwillingly supplied him with free biscuits . |
| 3 | As a child at the Legation I had met officers from the Sudan , Kenya and Somaliland , who were serving as Consuls in the border areas of Abyssinia . |
| 4 | Mother Francis had nurtured them behind the scenes , just as she had taken cuttings from the various bushes and plants in the convent garden and made a garden around the stony waste ground , the ugly edge of the cliff where Jack Malone had ended his life . |
| 5 | We had had intimations from the case studies that , despite its fame nationally within the ‘ school self-evaluation movement ’ , the booklet was not universally well known amongst the LEA 's teaching force . |
| 6 | They had received complaints from neighbours round about midnight about the nightly festivities at the home of the star of Die Hard and TV 's Moonlighting . |
| 7 | An amazing 98 of them stated they had lost inches from areas they had considered difficult to slim or had found impossible to reduce previously . |
| 8 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 9 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 10 | The justices left intact a ruling by the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals , which had held that the US Congress had acted properly when in 1986 it had prohibited individuals from possessing or transferring machine guns . |
| 11 | For example , the Partnership had encouraged the creation of multi-agency working parties to explore such issues as crime , it had redirected funds from other agencies and the private sector through policies including industrial improvement and conservation , and it had helped to foster such new projects as promoting credit unions . |
| 12 | FAMILY 's enemies ( and it had many , most notably among feminists ) were fond of equating its origins with movements of the seventies such as the anti-abortion campaigns , the racialist right and the pro-censorship lobby , and certainly it had drawn members from all these . |
| 13 | Keith Hayes , treasurer of Middlesbrough and District Philatelic Society , which hosted this year 's convention , said it had attracted dealers from all over the North from the Tweed to the Humber . |
| 14 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the shooting was being treated as murder . |
| 15 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the killing of L/ Cpl Edwards was being treated as murder . |
| 16 | In early September he denied charges of impropriety after fresh allegations that he had accepted favours from a wealthy property developer . |
| 17 | It cleared him by 10 votes to three of a charge that he had received bribes from Koskotas , and by nine votes to four of a charge that he had embezzled state funds by asking the Ministry of Finance to write off illegally debts owed by an Athens hotelier , Socrates Kalkanis . |
| 18 | At the outbreak of war , the casual wards had been closed by order of the Ministry of Health , and the master reported to the committee that on August 31st 1939 , he had received instructions from the medical officer of health to evacuate , 116 patients and children to other institutions within the county to accommodate the patients evacuated from London hospitals . |
| 19 | They also stated that he had received funds from North Korea . |
| 20 | Mr Maher said he had received assurances from the Government that new legislation on increasing competition would apply to the book agreement . |
| 21 | On April 8 Tudjman announced that he had received assurances from the JNA leadership that the JNA would not interfere in the settlement of the political crisis , but on April 11 the Croatian government announced the establishment of a de facto republican army in the form of a Croatian National Guard Corps . |
| 22 | And here in this memorial chapel he had painted episodes from his experiences . |
| 23 | Party colleagues , notably Mr Singh , deserted him , and his own reputation was tarnished by allegations that he had taken bribes from Bofors , a Swedish arms company . |