Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 32 | For one who , when left alone would get out the frying pan , pour in a little oil — I had converted from lard — and then proceed to fry a mixed grill of bacon , eggs , bread , mushrooms and tomatoes , the idea of pulses and sprouting beans were as alien as the little bug-eyed monsters from outer space . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 35 | This included one of the most severe letters I had seen from his pen . |
| 36 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 37 | That , as I had seen from the outside , was shrouded in green plastic , and , as all the windows seemed to have been boarded up , there was scarcely any light at all . |
| 38 | Approaching in the soft hazy warmth of a still summer evening , Alec and I had descended from the plateau into the cool shadows past the skirting snows of Hell 's Lum Crag . |
| 39 | Hewlett , I rashly said I would send him some of the letters I had received from him . |
| 40 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 41 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 42 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 43 | Although I had escaped from Montfaucon , the ice cold day soon curbed my elation . |
| 44 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
| 45 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 46 | ’ Come away in and warm yourself , Archie , ’ I said , adopting an idiom I had absorbed from him . |
| 47 | So I had ascertained from newspapers . |
| 48 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 49 | ‘ It clarified one of the things I had said from the start . |
| 50 | ‘ It is only I had heard from Miss Blagden that … ’ |
| 51 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 52 | Robin Summers was the most recent casualty from my squadron , and I had heard from the German at Amsterdam that he was a prisoner . |
| 53 | She asked if I had heard from you and said that she wished to read the novel you were writing , and I 'm afraid I said I thought you were writing it . |
| 54 | His name is Mr William Charles Francis ; age 26 ; occupation journalist ; religion Church of England ; next-of-kin father ; addresses of both in the Admission Book ; admitted to Casualty at 10.20 A.M. — ’ and she went on to tell us all I had heard from Humber . |
| 55 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 56 | I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher . |
| 57 | I had obviously forgiven myself far too easily ; and saying to myself I had gained from the loss in any way was just pure sophistry . |
| 58 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 59 | He gave me one , and I folded the cheque carefully into a spill and lit the cigarette with the flame I had obtained from the gas-fire . |
| 60 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |