Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was surprised by their looks , as they came through the airlock — enough to keep me from being puzzled , then , about how they had crossed from their pod to my ship without space suits . |
| 2 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 3 | Miss Trimm had talked about her son as an infant , how he had blessed the fishermen on Dynmouth Pier , how he had emerged from her womb without pain . |
| 4 | There was little conversation : nothing had happened in Dent that day worth the telling , and it was none of their business to ask where I had come from and where I was going . |
| 5 | They could not understand where I had come from , or how I could possibly survive . |
| 6 | My Houy master was very interested in me , and as soon as I could speak the language , he asked me to explain where I had come from . |
| 7 | I did not want anybody to know where I had come from . |
| 8 | In spite of my difficulties , all the officers and men showed great kindness and patience ; except for one Australian officer who did not disguise the fact that he would have been only too happy to send me back to where I had come from . |
| 9 | There had been a time when she had stared from Crowe 's knee , before Crowe 's study fire , out at Alexander on the Long Royston terrace . |
| 10 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 11 | It had happened before , when they had descended from her apartment , but then the presence of another person had diluted the effect to an extent where she was able to ignore it . |
| 12 | In between the various tests there was a delay of two or three days when we would be left on tenterhooks in case we had failed ; every afternoon people would be told to pack their bags and would be deposited at Aubagne station to take a train back to where they had come from . |
| 13 | I had enquiries made as to the origins of the zombis , but no one knew where they had come from . |
| 14 | The Pole Star and the Southern Cross gave early sailors some idea of where they had come from and the direction they needed to take . |
| 15 | Edward 's brother-in-law became King Harold II , in 1066 , but he died later that same year at the Battle of Hastings , to whence he had travelled from Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire , where he had successfully defended against an invasion of Norwegians . |
| 16 | November 1876 , reported that on the previous Thursday evening , he had preached in the little church at Turnham Green , to whence he had walked from Isleworth . |
| 17 | I used to watch him out of the back attic window in the late afternoon , when he had risen from his rest . |
| 18 | One of the writer 's earliest memories of Nottingham comes from 1962 when he had alighted from a local train from Sheffield at the Midland Station . |
| 19 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 20 | I had got one souvenir and if not identifiable with the shed , at least I knew where it had come from . |
| 21 | ‘ They wanted our money but did not want anyone to know where it had come from . |
| 22 | It called out in alarm , turned , raced back to where it had come from and then disappeared . |
| 23 | Pascoe saw where it had come from , that excitement , that unstoppable hunger . |
| 24 | Two uniforms were trying to put an extendable ladder up to the skylight — God knows where it had come from — over the bath without actually having to look at the body . |
| 25 | If I knew where it had come from I would do it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 28 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 29 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 30 | And he felt the strange eagle in the cage next to his waiting for a reply to her question about where he had come from . |