Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , within seven years , Hepworth had declared himself bankrupt and Stoll had withdrawn from the production business , having lost some £200,000 from its various production ventures . |
| 2 | Besides that , Soviet troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan and a whole range of nuclear missiles had been destroyed . |
| 3 | Once it had withdrawn from the BCOA , Pittston rejected the union contract and cut off health benefits to 1,500 widows , disabled miners , and pensioners . |
| 4 | Among these tracts were two written by a Scotsman , James Harryson or Henderson , merchant of Edinburgh , who had joined Somerset in 1544 and been an English pensioner since 1546 : An Exhortion to the Scottes ( 1547 ) and The Godly and Golden Booke for Concorde of England and Scotland ( 1548 ) , which remained unprinted because , ironically enough , the Scot was continuing the propaganda battle on behalf of England after the English had withdrawn from it . |
| 5 | Once he had withdrawn from the scene their natural antipathy to landlords re-asserted itself . |
| 6 | Though remarkably free from bitterness , the sergeant had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent , even allowing for his love of literature . |
| 7 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |
| 8 | Tim Waterstone declined to expound on the decision , beyond saying that Waterstones had withdrawn from the concession for commercial reasons and was now re-entering it for commercial reasons . |
| 9 | 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war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 10 | 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Keraing 's house and electrified the village for the first time in the thirty-odd years since the invading Japanese had withdrawn from Indonesia . |
| 11 | While they had been delayed by Duvall 's attack on Devlin , the thing had withdrawn from the basement window and lurched through the storm to the front of the building . |
| 12 | When the ladies had withdrawn from the dinner-table , a conversation began about the Highlanders and their linen . |
| 13 | When Carradine was shot down , Yggdrasil had withdrawn from the Dream , feeling the hurt a whale might feel from a tick . |
| 14 | The dusty streets , now that the traders had withdrawn from them , seemed to enjoy a silent life of their own . |
| 15 | Having spent himself , he had still found the will and strength to move away after he had withdrawn from her , so that they lay without touching , the space between them painfully eloquent , the gleaming coppery curve of the shoulder that he presented to her even more hurtful . |
| 16 | It had hurt almost unbearably earlier , when he had withdrawn from her to lie turned away from her once more , the shoulder he presented to her as eloquent a rejection as his disinclination to touch her . |
| 17 | The doubts about Mr Lamont 's survival grew after it was disclosed that he had withdrawn from the panel on BBC TV 's Question Time programme tomorrow , with Mr Clarke replacing him . |
| 18 | Both vessels had withdrawn from Colombian territorial waters by Jan. 9 and the incident did not prevent a meeting taking place between representatives from Colombia , Peru and Bolivia on Jan. 10 in Santa Cruz , Bolivia , for the purpose of preparing the ground for the international drug summit ( which Bush was expected to attend ) scheduled to begin in the Colombian city of Cartagena on Feb 15 . |
| 19 | Bommai was elected to the post unopposed after Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav and S. Jaipal Reddy had withdrawn from the contest . |
| 20 | Four other airlines , Alitalia ( Italy ) , American Airlines ( United States ) , KLM ( Netherlands ) , and Varig ( the main Brazilian carrier ) had withdrawn from the tender . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The ( MPRP ) Chair of the Council of Ministers , Sharavyn Gungaadorj , had withdrawn from the contest before the voting commenced . |
| 23 | On Oct. 5 the consortium led by the US Bell Atlantic Telephone Company had withdrawn from the purchase of Entelnor , which was eventually bought by a consortium formed by the Italian state telecommunications company STET SpA , France Cable and Radio ( part of French Telcomm ) , Perez Co ( a local oil , fishing and banking group ) and the US bankers J.P . |
| 24 | The regular Lebanese Army , under the command of Gen. Emile Lahud , began deploying throughout the whole of greater Beirut on Dec. 3 after various Lebanese militias had withdrawn from the area . |
| 25 | Although Duke had contested the election as a Republican , he had been disowned by most of the party 's establishment , and the official Republican candidate had withdrawn from the contest in order to avoid splitting the anti-Duke vote . |
| 26 | When pressed upon the issue , Hawke admitted the deal , but claimed that he had withdrawn from the arrangement in December 1990 after Keating had made " treacherous " remarks to the press about his leadership . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest , leaving him as sole contender . |
| 29 | The PDCS had withdrawn from their alliance with the Progressive Democratic Party ( PDP — until March 1990 the Communist Party — PCS ) on Feb. 24 , declaring that it regarded the coalition , which had been in office since 1986 , as outmoded . |
| 30 | 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 . |