Example sentences of "having [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having received from Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle advice that the dismissal was valid , the Lord President of the Council on behalf of Her Majesty dismissed the petition . |
| 2 | Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God , and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit , he has poured out what you now see and hear ’ ( Acts 2:32ff ) . |
| 3 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 4 | As for the 500 million yen in illicit political donations which he acknowledged having received from Watanabe , he claimed not to remember to whom it was distributed , and suggested that his secretary , Masahisa Haibara , who had directly received the money from Watanabe , should be questioned on the matter . |
| 5 | Apart from finding globules of mercury in people 's shoes , a contemporary commentator , and opponent of this form of treatment , describes two men who used the same tavern regularly and both having supped from their little bottles of mercury would smoke a pipe and down some wine . |
| 6 | The Territorial Army recruits have spent only fourteen days in Guildford , having travelled from their units scattered throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 8 | David , having parted from Ken Pitt , was now managed by Tony DeFries . |
| 9 | In the middle of this explosion of pop culture , Nicholson had also become a free agent again , having parted from his wife in 1966 , and moved in with his actor friend Harry Dean Stanton at Laurel Canyon . |
| 10 | All unemployed workers are , of course , searching for new jobs ( apart , that is , from those ‘ discouraged workers ’ who regard themselves as having withdrawn from the labour market ) . |
| 11 | On the issue of United Kingdom participation in UNESCO ( the United States , United Kingdom and Singapore having withdrawn from the organization in 1984-85 — see pp. 33499-501 ) Mayor held talks on Feb. 28 with the UK Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , Timothy Sainsbury , and on March 15 the House of Commons foreign affairs committee issued its first report on reforms within UNESCO , indicating that if Mayor succeeded in reforming the organization 's administration , the UK should rejoin . |
| 12 | On the same day a ceremony was held in Berlin at which the three Western generals at the Allied Kommandatura ( the Soviet union having withdrawn from the four-power control commission in 1948 ) relinquished their responsibility for the city , while the four powers held a joint ceremony at the Glienecke Bridge between East and West Berlin . |
| 13 | The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May . |
| 14 | In our first encounter with Satan we find him within the burning lake of Hell , having fallen from such a great height to such a great depth and now engulfed in fire , licked by flames , seemingly in pain , according to Milton 's narration , yet still able to speak with an uncanny strength and courage against ‘ the potent Victor ’ ( I. 95 ) . |
| 15 | But following an all night drink and drugs party he was found close to the Bridge of Sighs … having fallen from the top floor of this house . |
| 16 | First , I recall that when I was a theological student , having come from a fairly conservative church , I could not square up I Kings with I Chronicles . |
| 17 | On 8 April the British cruiser London arrived , having come from Gibraltar in twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat . |
| 19 | Within a year the fundraising campaign , which included selling note cards and T-shirts , had been completed , much of the money having come from local businesses and foundations . |
| 20 | The two ivory ‘ Divine Boy ’ figurines described by Evans as probably having come from the Labyrinth , may well be representations of Velchanos before and after puberty . |
| 21 | In 1817 the lost watch was unearthed by a mole , and a stirrup and horseshoe were found in the Queen 's Mire , though there is no firm evidence of their having come from Mary 's horse . |
| 22 | So when a new agent was appointed in Ecclesall in 1912 he was recommended as having come from " the great school of Liverpool , where he worked for Mr James Thompson " . |
| 23 | The bolts themselves can vary in size , and the example illustrated is quite small , probably having come from a box . |
| 24 | It is also the case that the great majority of students entering advanced courses in art and design have come from foundation courses , a few having come from school with GCE A level passes in art . |
| 25 | Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston . |
| 26 | Having come from backing singer to lead , Sam is now enjoying well deserved success with the title song Stop . |
| 27 | For him Childebert I could be compared with the Old Testament monarch , Melchisedek — and doubtless , having come from Ravenna , Fortunatus 's image of Melchisedek would have been similar to that which was set up in San Vitale , where the patriarch provided an analogue to the emperor Justinian . |
| 28 | This is all due to Sidcombe having resigned from the League . |
| 29 | Lacking a base in an institution , and having resigned from the Zoological Society after falling out with its Secretary , he was , as it were , writing his books in a void . |
| 30 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Musa bin Hitam , a former Deputy Prime Minister , announced that he would rejoin the United Malays National Organization ( Baru ) — UMNO ( Baru , the dominant party in the National Front coalition ) — after having resigned from UMNO ( UMNO ( Baru ) 's predecessor organization deregistered in February 1988 — see p. 36555 ) in 1986 [ see p. 34294 ] . |