Example sentences of "had from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British in India had from the beginning of the nineteenth century seen clearly that so unnatural a phenomenon as the government of that teeming subcontinent by the parliamentary electorate of the British Isles could not be destined to be permanent . |
| 2 | The torches , that had from the back played on and around him like searchlights finding the enemy , were switched off . |
| 3 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 4 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 5 | When it saw what pleasure the servicemen had from the course , the Club was pleased its struggle to keep it open had been successful . |
| 6 | Although not quoted as a reference over recent years , the Henley Standard continued its reporting of the Club 's fixtures and competitions , as it had from the beginning . |
| 7 | The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime . |
| 8 | This demonstrated the advantages which the DCAC derived from its ability to attract fresh minds like McClean 's and the good will it had from the Catholic community in general . |
| 9 | We had from the outset a desire to cross barriers that had previously existed and to get involved in community groups . |
| 10 | His word conveyed power and achieved results as it had from the time of creation itself . |
| 11 | Certainly no other organization could challenge the sheer size of an industry that had from the outset relied on economies of scale and realized the logic of a mass audience , but neither was there any other organization prepared to rely exclusively on entertainment , which the showmen had identified as the essence of the movies . |
| 12 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 13 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 14 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 15 | But now she could see the charm , could read the meaning , of the observer 's role , a meaning inaccessible to a sixteen-year-old , to a thirty-year-old — for the observer was not , as she had from the vantage , the disadvantage of childhood supposed , charged with an envious and impotent malice , and consumed with a fear of imminent death : no , the observer was filled and informed with a quick and lively and long-established interest in all those that passed before , in all those that moved and circled and wheeled around , was filled with intimate connections and loving memories and hopes and concerns and prospects . |
| 16 | The most arresting libertarian thesis holds that far from constituting the vanguard of the proletariat , as it claimed , the party had from the start represented an entirely different class , that of ‘ intellectual workers ’ . |
| 17 | We had from the above example : unc |
| 18 | Whatever the fault he had from the start , |
| 19 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 20 | She had from the beginning an immunity to other people 's opinion of her , which is n't a characteristic that is much liked in women . |
| 21 | Because import duty ( 35 per cent on ornamented goods ) and freight charges , had from the start pushed prices up in the US , Peter now decided to make a virtue of necessity and deliberately aimed for an exclusive designer image with corresponding price tag . |
| 22 | He pointed out that they had from the start prosecuted a vigorous trial even though cross-courses had led to " vast expense " and that they were , as spiritedly as ever , carrying on " bold works " . |
| 23 | The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile . |
| 24 | The Board had from the start been conscious of its pioneering role . |
| 25 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 26 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 27 | At a first glance none of the samples match what they had from the body specimens . ’ |
| 28 | These are the eggs I had from the butcher . |
| 29 | that we had from the day we opened and we 've never found them ! |