Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 2 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 3 | Tammuz had turned around from his workstation . |
| 4 | There was only one really bitter outbreak of in-fighting , prompted by a story which Peter Walker had raked up from somewhere that gave an account of Margaret hoarding food during the miners ' strike . |
| 5 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 6 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 7 | A few parties had walked along from Sandwich Bay Estate to picnic on the beach . |
| 8 | The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran . |
| 9 | The aircraft had taken off from Prestwick half-an- hour earlier . |
| 10 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 11 | ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham . |
| 12 | With about half a mile to go Elliott decided that it was time to make a move , and in a matter of a few strides Phar Lap had stormed up from last to first . |
| 13 | After Wandsworth Nicholson had moved around from prison to prison , serving his time as surely as any of the inmates in those institutions . |
| 14 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 15 | When the local doctor , confounded by the sparrow size of his patients , informed the couple that they were to become parents , llya Holovich had dropped her lined and weary face to her chest and wept , and Stepan Holovich had jumped up from his chair and then scratched between his thin grey hair and laughed . |
| 16 | The boy had crawled out from beneath the blanket and knelt there , looking across at Tuan Ti Fo , his eyes wide with fear . |
| 17 | Music was now for the young , not the middle aged : folk had taken over from jazz as the language of the radical and the sentimental . |
| 18 | Everyone knew the story of how old man Reynolds had come up from nothing to be a landowner . |
| 19 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 20 | After the Council had moved on from chapter II , Cardinal Ottaviani , without protest from any of those presiding , returned to it in defiance of the rules . |
| 21 | Two five-dollar bills had fallen out from behind the encyclopedia just when she was needing money so badly . |
| 22 | Incidentally , they were things that Mikhoels had brought back from Chagall as a gift for the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 23 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 24 | This latter business was undertaken in the most difficult financial circumstances and , even after the newly founded Bank of England had taken over from Herne , it was his credit that kept the artillery train in Flanders from starving late in 1694 . |
| 25 | The Beatles had taken over from the Rolling Stones , but Gabriel , used to pop boiling over all around her , did not notice . |
| 26 | The one on the right had flown in from Finland . |
| 27 | When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage . |
| 28 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 29 | Once business had moved on from Earth , parts of the Tangle fell unoccupied . |
| 30 | But not long after ten hotair balloons had taken off from Lydiard Park in swindon drama struck . |