Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A post-mortem examination disclosed she had died from a single knife wound , which had severed the artery . |
| 2 | She suddenly realised she had passed from the survival phase to a phase where she could see that The Body Shop had become a retailing institution that was going from strength to strength . |
| 3 | A post mortem revealed she had died from shock . |
| 4 | She admitted she had come from London to gain recruits for the Communist Party , but denied any attempt to stir up strife . |
| 5 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 6 | When the peat-brown eyes fixed on hers again , their level gaze showed he had recovered from his astonishment at seeing her . |
| 7 | The story of King Bladud was first chronicled by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( c. 1100–1154 ) in his Historia Regum Britanniae , a collection of mythology and history relating to the early history of Britain , which he claimed he had translated from a lost book of Breton legends . |
| 8 | I discovered he had come from South America . |
| 9 | In 1976 , the mother and step-father parted , and in 1990 , the woman heard he had parted from the mother of his daughter and wanted access . |
| 10 | You knew I had returned from Australia , and you must have known I 'd come immediately . ’ |
| 11 | She knew she had ridden from the woods , screaming her grief … but she felt no grief , only a terrible inevitability , only cold acceptance . |
| 12 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 13 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 14 | I thought — I mean , I thought they had come from Stuart . |
| 15 | When morning came , the Russian saw he had fallen from the ledge and was hanging upside down , his ice face and the rock face united in a carezza . |
| 16 | And this revealed he had fled from Ford Open Prison in Sussex in 1978 — while serving three years for conspiracy to steal and forgery . |
| 17 | Swindon coroner John Elgar said she had died from asphyxiation . |
| 18 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 19 | Sophie Swales was found to have in her possession 1s.1d and Jane Lawrence 3d. , which she said she had borrowed from Sophie Swales . |
| 20 | In a recent National Computing Centre survey , 41% of respondents said they had suffered from physical security breaches , the most common cause being power failure . |
| 21 | In the survey of people who had used the tape ‘ Coping with Anxiety ’ , produced by the Liverpool based Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction [ CITA ] , four out of five anxiety sufferers questioned said they had benefited from it , experiencing a reduction in their anxiety , fewer panic attacks or a better night 's sleep . |
| 22 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 23 | On Sept. 27 Ceausescu was released from custody for 90 days to undergo medical treatment for chronic cirrhosis of the liver ( a condition reportedly complicated by a stab wound he had received from one of the revolutionary mob moments after his Dec. 22 television appearance ) . |
| 24 | The slash of blood across his throat and down his cheek revealed the knife wound he had died from . |
| 25 | He said it had differed from the Foreign Office advice because it had subsequently been been scrutinised in ‘ greater detail ’ . |
| 26 | They eventually learned to speak English and explained they had come from St Martin 's Land , a twilit , subterranean place . |