Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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1 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
2 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
3 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
4 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
5 | Tonight , as a cold wintry blizzard rages outside , our hearts are warm with the satisfaction of the continuing public service which you have all enjoyed from your own station CHAB , and which the C.B.C . |
6 | Perhaps my mother had received another anonymous letter which she had successfully concealed from me ? |
7 | She had begun to pull on the long suede gloves which she had earlier stripped from her beautiful hands . |
8 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
9 | What they did incontestably leave were remarkable examples of those hard-wearing memorials which we have already observed from prehistoric times : stones . |
10 | The space between the fly sheet and inner dome also plays a major part in eradicating condensation , a problem which we have all encountered from time to time . |
11 | He had added two new candidates , the Acanthiza ewingi and the Strepera arguta , to the list of native Tasmanian species , making a total of 12 , four of which he had already named from specimens sent to him before he left England , and had now succeeded in seeing all of these alive in their native habitat . |
12 | The electricians appeared to accept the kind of binding agreements which he had vainly sought from the print unions . |
13 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
14 | It was small and less noisy than the farm tractor which he had sometimes watched from the edge of the primrose wood at home . |
15 | He is still keeping busy making model steam engines and indulging in his favourite hobby — photography — in which he has now progressed from ‘ stills ’ to ‘ movies ’ . |
16 | It had taken pain and misery to tell her what she had not learned from happiness — that she was in love with Tom Russell . |
17 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
18 | The Daily Express had arrived in his absence and its front page confirmed what he had already heard from Mrs Pettifer up at the Manor . |
19 | Quickly he told Dalziel what he had just learned from Antony and of the train of thought this had started in his mind . |