Example sentences of "[verb] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 2 | And it was she who had said ‘ This is the way ’ and their arrival at this spot at the moment the friar was being attacked had flowed from that . |
| 3 | All the families involved had moved from England to Orkney for a variety of reasons . |
| 4 | The inability of O'Neill and Chichester-Clark to satisfy those demands without destabilizing the state had created the very condition that people such as Paisley had argued had obtained from the first : the rise of old-fashioned nationalist anti-partitionism . |
| 5 | The exercise led to a bizarre episode in 1967 , when the mayor of Londonderry , Councillor Albert Anderson , produced a letter which he claimed had come from the working committee . |
| 6 | By April 1924 the head of every firm involved had received from Buckingham Palace a signed letter in Queen Mary 's own hand describing the Dolls ' House as ‘ the most perfect present that anyone could receive ’ , and an invitation to visit it at the Palace of Arts . |
| 7 | The four patients who died had died from unrelated causes . |
| 8 | ‘ No , not a bit , thanks , ’ she answered truthfully , for the chill she felt had come from within . |
| 9 | After they had left the tavern , there were always some globules of mercury on the floor which the charitable thought had spilt from their bottles , but the waiters knew had come from the men themselves . |
| 10 | Sao Paulo 's capitalization alone , which had dropped by 70 per cent to US$15,400 million in 1990 , had recovered to $36,900 million by May and the volume of shares transacted had risen from an estimated 17,000,000 a day in January 1991 to an estimated 40-50,000,000 a day by June . |
| 11 | He said that 33 black Mauritanians belonging to FLAM had benefited from the recent amnesties , which were the result of " French pressure " . |
| 12 | No , we had a cheque which we presumed had come from Social Services |
| 13 | In south-eastern Chad , Mosanat ( Mouvement pour la salvation nationale tchadienne ) claimed military victories in early March 1989 ( see p. 36519 ) and denied the government 's claims that fighting in that region had involved a Libyan-backed Islamic Legion ( a force of some 2,000 whom the Sudanese authorities said had crossed from Libya into Sudan in early August 1988 , and on whom the Habre government claimed to have inflicted defeats in December 1988 some 100 km west of the Sudanese border ) . |
| 14 | Passengers carried had risen from 9 million in 1902/3 to almost 34 million in 1921/2 ; typical fares were : Bispham and Talbot Square 2d and to South Shore 4d , while there was a shilling return on the Fleetwood route . |
| 15 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
| 16 | And the bar on which they stood had evolved from a simple counter or hatch to something approaching the form we know today : in his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture of 1833 J C Loudon described the ideal bar ( the place ‘ from which all orders are issued ’ ) as being ‘ of some size ’ , with ‘ commanding views of the front entrance hall and back entrance ’ . |