Example sentences of "had [be] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The call had been for Hank , and had been from one of his classmates , who said that he just wanted to inquire how Hank was . |
| 2 | Ballistics experts proved the pellets had been from two air rifles found in Dines ' car . |
| 3 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 4 | John Baring 's father had been from 1882 senior partner in the merchant bank of Baring Brothers , and he himself joined the firm on leaving Cambridge , served his apprenticeship as a clerk , travelled widely in North and South America , and was made a full partner early in 1890 . |
| 5 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |
| 6 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 7 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
| 8 | Their increase in money wages had been from 21s 9d to 36s ( £1.08 — £1.80 ) , an increase of 66 per cent . |
| 9 | The famous English institutions of learning , the universities and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and the colleges at Eton and Winchester were specifically exempted from the provisions of the Act , as they had been from earlier legislation . |
| 10 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |