Example sentences of "as [pers pn] had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher . |
| 2 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 3 | That , as I had seen from the outside , was shrouded in green plastic , and , as all the windows seemed to have been boarded up , there was scarcely any light at all . |
| 4 | As she had turned from him it had slipped down . |
| 5 | After Edgbaston came the English Stroke-Play Championship at Hollinwell where , as she had feared from the outset , she had to pull out after just the one round because of swollen glands . |
| 6 | As soon as she had recovered from the months of Rhoda 's illness , and come to terms with her death , and adjusted to the sudden change in her circumstances , she would do something about it . |
| 7 | He scowled and once more she was forcibly reminded of his Viking heritage , the cold , hard power that had fortified the Norsemen as they had bounded from their makeshift camps intent on conquest . |
| 8 | On the carpet by the tallboy were several red carnations , as fresh as they had come from the florist , and beside them , a shattered glass spill . |
| 9 | However , as members of the Cambridge Board Committee , both the District Chairman and Secretary were fully apprised of the details of the new arrangements and , presumably , acquiesced in the explicit transfer of providing powers under Chapter III for One-Year and Terminal courses in rural areas so that the complete scheme in Bedfordshire could be maintained as it had developed from 1927 . |
| 10 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 11 | We did not therefore send off the telegram he had drafted to Molotov , more especially as he had received from Eden a cold and almost minatory minute just before the Cabinet began . |
| 12 | From a free-kick on the left , Gannon swung the ball deep and Morris , not as heavy as he had appeared from the previous half-hour , made the game safe with a soaring header . |
| 13 | In Suger s case , this power was given sharper focus by its place at the apex of the terrestrial hierarchy ; for , as he had learned from the presumed patron of his monastery , Pseudo-Dionysius , this was the proper ordering of earthly political authority . |
| 14 | His room was drab and poky , but clean , rather as he had expected from a rundown lower middle-class Viennese pension . |
| 15 | The warmth from the hot pipe that skirted a side wall billowed across Holly 's face , rubbed at the cold that had settled under his tunic and shirt as he had walked from the compound with the trustie from Internal Order . |
| 16 | The bag and the oil had nestled behind his testicles , held in place by his underpants , as he had walked from the Factory to Hut 2 , evaded the evening search . |