Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [verb] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 2 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 3 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 4 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 5 | He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory . |
| 6 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 7 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 8 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 9 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 10 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 11 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 12 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 13 | Although she had consistently turned away from singing opportunities — ‘ The more people nagged , the more I was determined to stay away ’ — she realised that this was something that , say , Lulu would never even consider . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 15 | When I told him we had recently come up from Southampton he said , " Gee , I would n't go to sea in that little tub for double my wages . " |
| 16 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 17 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 18 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 19 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 20 | He had just come in from sketching workmen out on the Geest , where they were laying water and gas pipes . |
| 21 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |
| 22 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |
| 23 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 24 | Are we to assume then that he had now switched over from being an evangelist and was a deliberate artist in the making , out in the open for all to see ? |