Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " 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 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A word which she had learned from Rose . |
| 11 | He realised with a sense of desperation that he would have to be twice as cunning as his wife if he was to recover that which she had taken from him . |
| 12 | She reached into her saddlebag and drew out a small cloth containing white clay which she had taken from Wynne-Jones 's lodge and which she had used in the making of Moondream . |
| 13 | By her bed was a chest of drawers which contained her underwear — several pairs of cheap directoire knickers , vests , petticoats , and corsets , plus black stockings of wool , cotton , and one precious silk pair which she had brought from her old life . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She frowned at his prescription sheet , which she had removed from the bed-table when she called me out . |
| 16 | Florrie was affectionately known as ‘ Hairpin' Axford through her use of a large hairpin which she had removed from her hair on more than one occasion to ‘ make a point ’ , as she herself described it . |
| 17 | She was invaluable for remembering original routines , which she had learnt from old John Tiller himself . |
| 18 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 19 | With the good weather our thoughts turned seaward and at Whitsun we launched our nine foot dinghy which we had brought from England . |
| 20 | On 18th , January 1912 , Captain Robert Falcon Scott , and his colleagues , reached the South Pole to find that Amundsen had reached there before them , and the whole party perished in appalling weather on their return journey to their ship Terra Nova , in which they had sailed from England in 1910 . |
| 21 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 22 | In the second column they insert the corresponding estimates for NAIRU which they had extracted from a variety of empirical studies . |
| 23 | So the one issue remaining on Woolwich 's writ of summons came to be whether or not Woolwich had grounds for claiming interest on the three payments which they had made from their respective dates up to 31 July 1987 . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | There is no evidence that Roe 's men worked on the westerly , Paddy End , workings which they had acquired from Tissington . |
| 26 | ‘ It is the finest nursery for sailors in the world ’ , Ransome wrote , after a successful cruise with his wife Evgenia in a small una-rigged cabin yacht which they had hired from Herbert Wood 's boatyard at Potter Heigham in 1931 . |
| 27 | Someone stepped on a loose plank in the alley down which they had come from the bridge , and the timber squealed . |
| 28 | All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners . |
| 29 | Her father , ruling duke of Celle ( exchanged for Hanover which he had governed from 1648 ) since 1665 , was not married to Eléonore at the time of their daughter 's birth , but , by military and diplomatic services to the Holy Roman Emperor , he obtained the legitimization of Sophia Dorothea and in 1675 the legal marriage of her parents was permitted . |
| 30 | Sidacai went out through the door , and Jehan speared another segment of apple and ate it while he considered how far the agreement which he had obtained from Sidacai could be trusted . |