Example sentences of "which [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 ’ .
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