Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 32 | Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 . |
| 33 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 34 | All the usual social suspects were there , including Princess Firyal of Jordan , who had just returned from Acapulco where she visited Ricky and Sandra di Portanova in their permanent tent . |
| 35 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 36 | The younger boy had offered to make toast for a social worker , Elizabeth Weepers , who had just returned from sick leave . |
| 37 | Skip was saying this to Bilou who had just come from grand-prix multihull racing in France . |
| 38 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 39 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 40 | Nine months after splitting up with Crawford , Gabrielle began a relationship with Chelsea footballer Tommy Baldwin , who had also parted from his wife . |
| 41 | Rabah Kebir , a senior figure in the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) who had reportedly escaped from house arrest in August and was said to be attempting to form an Islamist government in exile , said in an interview with Le Monde of Sept. 18 that the FIS wanted a dialogue with the government , and denied that the party had been responsible for the Algiers airport bombing , or for the assassination in June of the former HCS President , Mohamed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 ] . |
| 42 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 43 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 44 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 45 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 46 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |
| 47 | In the event Clinton won the New York contest comfortably , and saw Brown beaten into third place by Paul Tsongas who had already withdrawn from the contest . |
| 48 | Thus , the Gundovald affair highlights the dangers posed by magnates caught in three different situations : by those who were unsure of their position at court , those who had already fallen from royal favour , and those whose royal patron had been killed . |
| 49 | Famlio and the pirates , who had clearly learned from spies about Gharr 's captive , and her escape . |
| 50 | Paul Tsongas , who had formally withdrawn from the contest , polled 12 , 8 and 10 per cent respectively . |
| 51 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |
| 52 | She had a steady boyfriend who had never suffered from herpes himself , and , after a difficult first year following her primary attack , she had gradually improved until she finally went nine months without any trouble . |
| 53 | The responses could be analysed for differences in opinion depending on the time since the respondent had suffered from the illness or between those who had ever and those who had never suffered from the illness in question . |
| 54 | Not only the Siberian natives , who had long suffered from the systematic cruelty and exploitation of the invading white men ( see James Forsyth 's account in Chapter 4 ) , but also the ‘ old inhabitants ’ ( starozhily ) , Russian peasants , citizens and merchants fell victim of their virtual reign of terror . |
| 55 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 56 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 57 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 58 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 59 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |
| 60 | In 1961 an Institute of Latin America was established at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow , on the recommendation of Anastas Mikoian , who had recently returned from Cuba . |