Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had broken through from dramatic playing to a kind of performance , a ‘ presentation ’ , a subtle combination of personal expression and public code . |
| 2 | Instead , he drove away in the , ran over a kerb , got a flat tyre and kept going — to pick up Vicky Vanderford , whom he had flown in from California . |
| 3 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 4 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 5 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 6 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 7 | Turning down offers of work , Crawford took a rest after six exhausting years , during which he had bounced back from his film disappointments to become one of Britain 's top television and stage stars . |
| 8 | Mr Birt said yesterday he had been ‘ enormously heartened ’ by the strong support he had received in from colleagues at the BBC . |
| 9 | And indeed the frayed scrappy edges he had cut off from his trousers were lying strewn on the floor , in the middle of the room for everyone to see ! |
| 10 | The station concourse was a seething mass of people , civilian and uniformed , with a fair spattering of the drunks that had always been part of the city 's landscape when he had ridden up from Galloway on weekends free from school . |
| 11 | The way he had fought back from that position showed that the grit demonstrated in all those celluloid heroes was not just acting . |
| 12 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 13 | Engaged in rapidly expanding the size of the business , which he had taken over from his father , Ross had had little or no time for his young wife or her problems . |
| 14 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 17 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 18 | Because then Jesus said to him , who was he talking to , let's , let's start off on the verse one after er after he had come down from the mountains , great crowds followed him that 's Jesus is n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 20 | Rebecca West , representing the polite world of letters at this proletarian scene of retribution , was being told by an elderly man how he had come back from viewing his grandchildren 's bodies at the public mortuary and heard the voice of the condemned criminal mocking him over the radio . |
| 21 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 22 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 23 | Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ? |
| 24 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 25 | He had come in from his dressing room and Eileen was waiting , dressed and ready for the dinner party . |
| 26 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |
| 27 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 28 | Philip Swallow finds the VC 's memorandum , its envelope still unopened , at the bottom of his In-tray , trapped between the pages of a brochure for Bargain Winter Breaks in Belgium which he had picked up from a local travel agency some weeks ago . |
| 29 | McAllister looked at him from under the long dark eyelashes which had won his heart from the very first moment when he had seen them , on his sofa , adorning the unconscious girl he had carried in from the street . |
| 30 | So he had driven down from Edinburgh to intercept the train . |