Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the woman she had given Cara 's card to hove into view her heartbeats steadied , for the person who accompanied her was not male but was a pinafore-clad woman of about the same age who , duster in hand , had obviously been brought away from her cleaning duties . |
| 2 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 3 | Last year an inquest was told how a milkman became suspicious when he noticed milk had not been taken in from the doorstep of the house . |
| 4 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 5 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 6 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 7 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 8 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |
| 9 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 10 | For Moby it was especially important because , as with most pups , he had correctly been kept away from parks and streets for health reasons during that critical early period of socialisation until his vaccination course had taken effect . |
| 11 | The conservative resurgence had not been anticipated when the congress had twice been brought forward from early 1991 . |