Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 2 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 3 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 4 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 5 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 6 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 7 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 8 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 9 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |