Example sentences of "which [pers pn] had [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 2 | It was the manuscript of Lord Byron 's poem which I had retrieved from the floor on the previous evening . |
| 3 | The knowledge which I had acquired from the LCCIEB was so relevant that I enjoyed the course tremendously . |
| 4 | I went to the store to check up on some things , and saw that eight Kandinskys which I had bought from the widow of Kandinsky 's secretary were missing . |
| 5 | She ran down the stairs , unbolted the heavy wooden door and was off , running in her nightdress , barefoot across the garden , holding the torch which she had snatched from the chest in the entrance hall . |
| 6 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 7 | While they drank to celebrate the arrangement , Mrs Corney told Mr Bumble about old Sally 's death , and the unknown gold object which she had stolen from the dead body of the young woman . |
| 8 | She frowned at his prescription sheet , which she had removed from the bed-table when she called me out . |
| 9 | Acknowledging this they presented the Club with an engraved silver rose bowl in 1984 in appreciation of some 15 years of play at Henley which they had chosen from the Daily Telegraph Book on Golf Courses ! |
| 10 | Someone stepped on a loose plank in the alley down which they had come from the bridge , and the timber squealed . |
| 11 | Temple had enthusiasm , he had theories about pop culture and the importance of the teenager ; above all , he had some equipment which he had borrowed from the National Film School . |
| 12 | The poem stresses throughout the elemental qualities of the landscape and seascape which it describes , leading Eliot to a particularly bare group of rocks which he had known from the sailing days of his childhood . |
| 13 | In 1539 Sir Richard Brereton decided to enclose and drain the Dogmore , a marshy common near Prees in Shropshire , which he had bought from the bishop of Lichfield . |
| 14 | When asked about the ‘ meaning ’ of his Foundation cycle , he was apt to burst into a song which he had adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera , Patience : ‘ Success is not a mystery , just brush up on your history , and borrow day by day/ Take an Empire that was Roman , and you 'll find it is at home in/ All the starry Milky Way . ’ |
| 15 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |