Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In fact , if he had n't looked up from his coffee and spotted her in the doorway , Caroline might have returned to her room and waited until she was sure he 'd gone .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ?
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