Example sentences of "had [verb] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Iraq had withdrawn from Kuwait , the Soviet Union and the United States would work with countries in the region to develop regional security structures and measures to promote peace and stability . |
| 2 | That night , with our generator and four lightbulbs , we illuminated the Keraing 's house and electrified the village for the first time in the thirty-odd years since the invading Japanese had withdrawn from Indonesia . |
| 3 | The Seville Junta behaved with criminal selfishness and , but for the moderation of its general , it might have declared war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 4 | France , which envisaged that it would lead the new force , had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 [ see p. 21601 ] and had since then pursued an effectively independent line on military issues . |
| 5 | The main cause for concern was the dominant role of France , which had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 and had since taken an independent line in defence matters . |
| 6 | Besides that , Soviet troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan and a whole range of nuclear missiles had been destroyed . |
| 7 | The auditors find fault with every stage of the ministry 's work and call for a review of site research for road improvements after the cost of improving the A6 at Chapel-en-le-Frith , Derbyshire , had jumped from £17 million to £36 million when an embankment and retaining wall collapsed . |
| 8 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 9 | To this information about Asia Marx added knowledge of the Inca which he had gathered from Prescott 's famous study , The Conquest of Peru , a remarkable book which came out in 1847 and whose instant fame had a dramatic impact on nineteenth-century thought . |
| 10 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 11 | She had stopped to help someone who had fainted from hunger in the street . |
| 12 | Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs . |
| 13 | William had hidden from Ernest , and Ernest asked Elizabeth and me to help find William . |
| 14 | He had parted from Felicity on good terms after breakfast ; she had returned to continue her courses . |
| 15 | An eighteen-year-old boy who had flown from India to marry a Calcutta girl now living in Liverpool was detained for three days by the officials , who suspected him of being under age and of using marriage as a trick to get a work permit . |
| 16 | To my surprise , a 30-year-old ex-mental-hospital detainee , Mr H , had flown from Japan to visit MIND in London and to seek asylum in the UK . |
| 17 | At an ensuing press conference , they were met by the African National Congress representative to the United Nations , Tebogo Mafole , who had flown from New York to welcome them . |
| 18 | I met most of my party there because I had flown from Stavanger and they had arrived via Oslo , but we all boarded the plane bound for Longyearbyen with great anticipation . |
| 19 | Eh er but er he had flown from Latvia . |
| 20 | Fund raising was underway , in the capable hands of TMAM Chairman Jimmy Beedle , who had flown from Tangmere with 43 Squadron in 1940 , was the author of the superb book The Fighting Cocks and Secretary of the 43 Squadron Association . |
| 21 | The members of the Commission on Social Justice , who had flown from south-east England in airline comfort yesterday morning and now were seated on hard chairs in the decrepit surroundings of the Salvation Army hall , nodded amiably . |
| 22 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 23 | I suggested that , in any case , it might be wise to postpone going away until we had heard from M. Chaillot regarding the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 24 | Then she had telephoned her parents , and learned that they too had heard from Sebastian . |
| 25 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 26 | " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew . |
| 27 | Rain could not understand why , when he had heard from Rosie all there was to know . |
| 28 | What he had heard from Harry Chiltern was disturbing . |
| 29 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 30 | She had heard from Mrs Crick that Mr Clare had spoken of marrying a country girl to help him farm , milk cows and reap corn . |