Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat 's crater was a very good French brandy that he had probably scrounged from somewhere local , most likely the Chateau just along the road . |
| 2 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 3 | He remembered his own great grief , and how he had finally emerged from it with a renewed sense of purpose ; for though his epic was intended to address the spiritual crisis of the age , it had also been conceived as a requiem for his lost wife and a celebration of her unwavering faith in his ability . |
| 4 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 5 | It was a raw , strangely sexual laugh ; one he had not heard from her before . |
| 6 | Astonished he had not heard from Donleavy himself about Miller taking over , Coleman sometimes wondered afterwards , in exile , if Donleavy had been a code name for Matthew Kevin Gannon , one of the intelligence agents who had died with Major Charles McKee on Flight 103 . |
| 7 | These were considerations that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist government . |
| 8 | Leslie had first to undergo a stiff P.T. course at Hardwick , but he found to his relief that he had not deteriorated from the peak physical condition which , despite those months of idleness , had achieved for him in North Africa his acceptance into the Parachute Regiment . |
| 9 | Therefore , if there is full ex post settling up , the manager is likely to end up worse off than if he had not deviated from the accepted behaviour . |
| 10 | The electricians appeared to accept the kind of binding agreements which he had vainly sought from the print unions . |
| 11 | In May Devi Lal 's son , Om Prakash Chauthala , had been forced to resign as the Janata Dal Chief Minister of Haryana ( a post he had effectively inherited from his father in December 1989 ) after months of controversy over a state-level by-election [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 12 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 13 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 14 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
| 15 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 16 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 17 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
| 18 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
| 19 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 20 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 21 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
| 22 | He had just returned from addressing the UN General Assembly in New York where he had given an assurance that democracy was now firmly rooted in Haiti . |
| 23 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 24 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |
| 25 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 26 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 27 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
| 28 | Quickly he told Dalziel what he had just learned from Antony and of the train of thought this had started in his mind . |
| 29 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
| 30 | He had added two new candidates , the Acanthiza ewingi and the Strepera arguta , to the list of native Tasmanian species , making a total of 12 , four of which he had already named from specimens sent to him before he left England , and had now succeeded in seeing all of these alive in their native habitat . |