Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [num] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had received five calls from angry parents or grandparents who had similar problems to the child portrayed on television . |
| 2 | Suzuki admitted that he had received 10,000,000 yen from Abe which he had neither declared as a political donation nor as personal income , and Shiozaki acknowledged the receipt of 20,000,000 yen but denied that it had been a bribe . |
| 3 | By Jan. 3 the Constitutional Council had received 341 appeals from various parties against the results of the Dec. 26 voting , on the grounds of alleged irregularities in 145 different constituencies . |
| 4 | In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there . |
| 5 | GREG HARLOW won the Robert Hutchinson Opticians Masters bowls title last night emerging from a field which had included 13 internationals from England , Scotland , Wales and Jersey none of whom succeeded in reaching the final . |
| 6 | The Pakistan duo had smashed 61 runs from just nine overs , taking the score to 135–2 in the 31st over , when Imran called for a cheeky single … |
| 7 | Only after he finished in his world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds did George learn that the tenacious Scot had collapsed sixty yards from the tape and had fallen on the grass . |
| 8 | The fall had torn one belt from his shoulder , and the cartridges in the other would be too swollen with water to fit the breach . |
| 9 | Fru Blicher had organised eighty chairs from a nearby school and set them in a semi-circle round the platform . |
| 10 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 11 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |
| 12 | The prosecution told the court how last April customs officers had intercepted two packages from the Continent addressed to Mr Righton at his home in Evesham . |
| 13 | By 1988 the programme had shifted 600,000 jobs from the public to the private sector and reduced the nationalized industries ' share of GDP to 6.5 per cent . |
| 14 | After the affidavits one of Kesselring 's subordinates , a man named Krumhaar , was cross-examined about an operation in which he had had twelve men from the village of Burgo Techino shot because two of his men had been severely wounded by ‘ terrorists ’ during a parade through the town . |
| 15 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 16 | Beatrice Stammer and Gabriele Horn , the curators of MISS-ING , had invited 130 women from all over the world to take part — at a month 's notice ! |
| 17 | A DRUNKEN man was found lying outside a shop door after he had stolen two shirts from inside , a court was told yesterday . |
| 18 | To get his precious bowl of gruel , Issi had walked 30 miles from his village of Lusulas with his father Abdi , 29 . |
| 19 | According to dissident and human rights groups , the Army had executed 17 men from the Issaq ethnic group on a beach near Berbera on Sept. 3 . |
| 20 | He had found one protection from those " storms " in the Anglican communion ( although he indignantly denied that it was any kind of comfortable haven ) , and during these years his role as one of the most prominent laymen in that communion was increasing ; as one biographical note in 1937 described him , Eliot had done much " to interpret literature to the theologian and theology to the men of letters " . |
| 21 | One village had slain three men from the north who had tried to steal food , and they hung like scarecrows on a crude gibbet . |
| 22 | Supposing all this had happened three months from now . " |
| 23 | I had borrowed ten quid from Joe — later repaid , and the only interest he demanded was a chaste kiss in front of the BBC in Langham Place . |
| 24 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 25 | He had taken one hand from the wheel and held it up in protest . |
| 26 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 27 | The Honey Bee had taken ten hours from Troon on the Clyde coast to Ardrishaig ; the cruiser two hours . |
| 28 | Therefore , in addition to specifically charged items , one could recover 24 hours ' general perusals on litigation which had taken 2 years from issue of writ to trial . |
| 29 | She had lost 2½ inches from each thigh , 3 inches from her hips and 3 inches off her waist . |
| 30 | Republic of Ireland .. 3 Northern Ireland ..... 0 THE celebrations were on the point of becoming a full-blown ceilidh when the score was corrected : Spain had not won 2-1 in Budapest , but the Hungarians had equalised eight minutes from time , and a bizarre set of circumstances could yet deny the Republic their first appearance in the World Cup finals . |