Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 2 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 3 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 4 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 5 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 6 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 7 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
| 8 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 9 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 10 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 11 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 12 | The station concourse was a seething mass of people , civilian and uniformed , with a fair spattering of the drunks that had always been part of the city 's landscape when he had ridden up from Galloway on weekends free from school . |
| 13 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 14 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |
| 15 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |