Example sentences of "which [pers pn] have [vb pp] from a " in BNC.

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1 You owe that to the extraordinary talents which you have received from a beneficent God ; and now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician , utterly forgotten by the world , or as a famous Kapellmeister , of whom posterity will read …
2 I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales .
3 Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen .
4 In the second column they insert the corresponding estimates for NAIRU which they had extracted from a variety of empirical studies .
5 ’ Donning a pair of small round plastic spectacles which he had extracted from a hidden pocket in the skirts of his frock-coat , he shambled over to the porter 's desk and ferreted around .
6 R. Kempt in " Convivial Caledonia " ( London 1893 ) gives a short account of the Islay Parliament which he had extracted from an account by Dr D. Anderson in the Scots Magazine of the previous year .
7 R. Kempt in " Convivial Caledonia " ( London 1893 ) gives a short account of the Islay Parliament which he had extracted from an account by Dr D. Anderson in the Scots Magazine of the previous year .
8 Freud originally used the technique of hypnosis which he had adopted from a friend of his , Joseph Breuer , with whom he wrote ‘ Studies in Hysteria ’ .
9 That case was distinguished in Charter v. Sullivan ( 1957 C.A. ) where the buyer refused to accept a Hillman Mini which he had ordered from a trader .
10 When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week .
11 Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day .
12 Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person .
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