Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 6 | The boy had crawled out from beneath the blanket and knelt there , looking across at Tuan Ti Fo , his eyes wide with fear . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 9 | The one on the right had flown in from Finland . |
| 10 | They drank whisky and cider , watched pornogrhapic videos that the teacher had brought back from a holiday in Germany . |
| 11 | Once business had moved on from Earth , parts of the Tangle fell unoccupied . |
| 12 | One eye had popped out from its socket , his chest was a bloody black hole , whilst the lower half of his face had been completely kicked away , revealing stumps of yellow teeth . |
| 13 | The roofs were most often not their own : long since , the community had drawn in from its perimeter , sharing its water , its food and its warmth , and distancing itself so far as might be from the walls and the thud of the cannon . |
| 14 | The annual revenue generated by this apparatus over the years preceding the war had built up from $482 million in 1964 to $1,109 million in 1970 . |
| 15 | But snippets and fragments of legend and lore had filtered in from somewhere . |
| 16 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 17 | In the heat of a sultry evening , Britain had the fitness and the heart to outlast the clever Koreans and it was Sixsmith who got the winner , poaching in the area after the ball had pinballed around from a short corner . |
| 18 | A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road . |
| 19 | A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road … |
| 20 | During the trial , the jury heard how the assault had led on from an earlier flight between the two men over a woman . |
| 21 | Spokesman Roger Donkin said that P&O had captured 33.2pc of the market for tourist vehicles — up 10pc — and the passenger share had gone up from 24 to 30pc . |
| 22 | On the eve of her sailing , she learned from a spokeswoman of the Queen 's that news had come in from Cyprus : that Diniz Vasquez her husband 's young kinsman was trapped in Famagusta . |
| 23 | By the time the first train had climbed up from Hawick through the station into the cutting and away towards Shankend , it was pitch dark . |
| 24 | The train had come in from the sidings and stood in the station , warm and pulsing , its engines reattached , the horses and grooms on board and fresh foods and ice loaded . |
| 25 | In the blustery dark descending the well-lit centre of the house , Rachaela found a woman had stepped out from a doorway , a neighbour from the floor below . |
| 26 | The hood had slipped back from his head when he fell , by the way it lay bunched in his neck . |
| 27 | It was in the sleeve of a classical album which Rakovsky 's junior secretary had picked up from one of Berlin 's best-known music shop on the Tiergarten . |
| 28 | So , the Excavator 's house of Call had sprung up from a beer-shop ; and the old -established Ham and Beef Shop had become the Railway Eating House , with a roast leg of pork daily , through interested motives of a similar immediate and popular description . |
| 29 | How was it that the ancient Hebrew word had drifted up from within her ? |
| 30 | Duncan lay still , confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south . |