Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is only I had heard from Miss Blagden that … ’ |
| 2 | So I had ascertained from newspapers . |
| 3 | Gagarin had had to search into the past for a word which perhaps he had heard from his granny ! |
| 4 | However , after a year or so he had recovered from all his problems except cribbing and an occasional bout of colic . |
| 5 | It all went to show how far away she had grown from the life she had been used to lead ; and the marriage , of course , explained Papa 's sudden permission for her own . |
| 6 | DOWN'N OUT POOR Mark Hughes slips up as he tries a shot in Moscow — and soon he had fallen from grace completely . |
| 7 | But the garden was deserted and already he had disappeared from view . |
| 8 | This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other . |
| 9 | He lowered his head , kissing her angrily , and she fought him , struggling beneath him as he kept her trapped , even though she offered such resistance to what he knew so deeply she had wanted from the beginning . |
| 10 | We do not know at what date Matilda had gone to Wilton , but probably she had come from Scotland as a young girl with her aunt Christina in 1086 to be educated at Wilton . |
| 11 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 12 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 13 | She did n't know how far they had come from Gloucester , but surely after an hour at a steady gallop they had put enough distance between themselves and the castle to halt for a few minutes . |
| 14 | Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable . |
| 15 | He still favoured Lyons Corner House , although by now he had graduated from the Grill and Cheese to the Seven Stars . |
| 16 | Indeed the aim of the work was to demonstrate how far he had fallen from ancestral glories , in order that his successors might rectify his errors . |
| 17 | He had not realised quite how far he had walked from his hut . |
| 18 | How far he had come from the silks and blissful hedonic acid and joyspike of the upper habs of Trazior . |
| 19 | Long ago she had retreated from all the suffering into her own world . |
| 20 | When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot . |
| 21 | And then I had come from erm what shall we say , a general , my grandparents had kept a general shop and general I mean , from baking , he was a baker er a butcher a coalman and my grandmother saw after the haberdashery , hats etcetera and the grocery . |
| 22 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 23 | Twenty minutes earlier he had alighted from the Gloucester train at Berkeley station . |
| 24 | Maybe it had blown from the farm ; a grain bag , or a sack of feed for the hens . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The concern known since 1873 as the Gutehoffnungshütte A.G. was by no means the largest in the Ruhr , but by then it had extended from iron-founding into quarrying and mining iron ore and coal — it produced practically all the 215,000 tons of iron ore and half the 415,000 tons of coal it required — and had diversified into transport , rolling and the construction of bridges , ships , and a variety of machinery . |
| 27 | It was patently clear to all that Samuel Pipkin could have poisoned the water after he had drunk from it , if indeed he had drunk from it at all . |
| 28 | Yet she had known from the start that he would not be easy to keep ; he was a man deeply in love , relentlessly loyal to that one love , with no room for any other woman . |
| 29 | Some weeks previously we had discovered from Louise Hay 's booklet , The Mental Causes for Physical Illness that fibroids represented the nursing of a hurt from a partner . |