Example sentences of "if [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked if I had heard from you and said that she wished to read the novel you were writing , and I 'm afraid I said I thought you were writing it . |
| 2 | She looked as if she had withered from within , and she was obviously disturbed . |
| 3 | The fullest enjoyment of Giorgione 's altarpiece could , he claimed , only be realised if we had walked from Venice to Castelfranco |
| 4 | The fullest enjoyment of Giorgione 's altarpiece could , he claimed , only be realised if we had walked from Venice to Castelfranco . |
| 5 | At the hotel , Salah greeted us as if we had returned from the dead , pumping our hands and laughing , " Crazy English , crazy English . " |
| 6 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 7 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 8 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 9 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 10 | If they had come from any other man or woman in the kingdom of Scotland , they would have been considered treasonable ; writing to her brother Henry , Margaret made constant pleas for the English to send troops into Scotland to restore her as Regent and crush any opposition to her and the Earl of Angus . |
| 11 | The Dome itself , designed by Ralph Tubbs , looked as if it had descended from Mars . |
| 12 | The scene of Essex 's rebellion , in which the Earl never appears , has been judged unfavourably , especially the running commentary provided by the blind ballad-singer.I wonder how widely praised this scene would be if it had issued from the hands of Brecht or one of his collaborators . |
| 13 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 14 | If he had drunk from it , the wounds received in his last dreadful battle against his nephew Mordred would have healed . |
| 15 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 16 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 17 | If he had turned from her and rushed from the room , banging the door after him , she would not have felt half as afraid as when he backed slowly from her , his arm bent and his forefinger wagging at her . |
| 18 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 19 | Asked by his doctor if he had recovered from flu , he said that he was fine but one of the clocks was going badly , and would the doctor come and have a look at it as soon as it was possible . |
| 20 | The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink . |