Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 2 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 3 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 4 | I had moved from his shoulder , so he got up and retrieved my hat . |
| 5 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 6 | I would never again speak of sin , certainly not to Lili , for one of the messages I had gathered from her speech was that it would bore her . |
| 7 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 8 | For one who , when left alone would get out the frying pan , pour in a little oil — I had converted from lard — and then proceed to fry a mixed grill of bacon , eggs , bread , mushrooms and tomatoes , the idea of pulses and sprouting beans were as alien as the little bug-eyed monsters from outer space . |
| 9 | I met most of my party there because I had flown from Stavanger and they had arrived via Oslo , but we all boarded the plane bound for Longyearbyen with great anticipation . |
| 10 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 11 | This included one of the most severe letters I had seen from his pen . |
| 12 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 13 | That , as I had seen from the outside , was shrouded in green plastic , and , as all the windows seemed to have been boarded up , there was scarcely any light at all . |
| 14 | Approaching in the soft hazy warmth of a still summer evening , Alec and I had descended from the plateau into the cool shadows past the skirting snows of Hell 's Lum Crag . |
| 15 | Hewlett , I rashly said I would send him some of the letters I had received from him . |
| 16 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 17 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 18 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 19 | Although I had escaped from Montfaucon , the ice cold day soon curbed my elation . |
| 20 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
| 21 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 22 | ’ Come away in and warm yourself , Archie , ’ I said , adopting an idiom I had absorbed from him . |
| 23 | So I had ascertained from newspapers . |
| 24 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 25 | ‘ It clarified one of the things I had said from the start . |
| 26 | ‘ It is only I had heard from Miss Blagden that … ’ |
| 27 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 28 | Robin Summers was the most recent casualty from my squadron , and I had heard from the German at Amsterdam that he was a prisoner . |
| 29 | She asked if I had heard from you and said that she wished to read the novel you were writing , and I 'm afraid I said I thought you were writing it . |
| 30 | His name is Mr William Charles Francis ; age 26 ; occupation journalist ; religion Church of England ; next-of-kin father ; addresses of both in the Admission Book ; admitted to Casualty at 10.20 A.M. — ’ and she went on to tell us all I had heard from Humber . |