Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I had n't deserted from the British Army . |
| 2 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 3 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 4 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 5 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 6 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 7 | The rocks were gigantic boulders of conglomerate , monstrous in their barren strangeness , much larger now we were close to them than I had ever realized from the island . |
| 8 | A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory . |
| 9 | Service attitudes — even in the RAF , which had most to gain from the Sandys Reformation — were bitterly hostile . |
| 10 | Artisans ' nominal earnings , which had hardly changed from the 1720s to the 1790s , then experienced a series of sharp increases . |
| 11 | Although the session began with 88 of the 165 members in attendance , it was boycotted by all the central committee members from the former Slovene League of Communists ( LC ) , which had unilaterally split from the LCY and renamed itself in February [ see p. 37255 ] , as well as by most members from the Croatian and Macedonian LCs . |
| 12 | Beverley himself had not returned from the town . |
| 13 | She had n't moved from the cockpit sole , but crouched there looking aft as if mesmerised by the towering storm front . |
| 14 | She had n't moved from the sofa and did n't look up when he pushed open the door . |
| 15 | She was about to turn to him and demand to be taken back when he suddenly swung on to a track she had not seen from the distance . |
| 16 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 17 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 18 | Gwendolen was dad in dark grey and was wearing the hat she had just purchased from the Iduns Brothers Bazaar . |
| 19 | ‘ She blamed Freddie and me for what went wrong but within two weeks she 'd died herself ; she had never recovered from the birth . ’ |
| 20 | The ‘ nearest thing she could get ’ to a Lord Ismay was Sir Michael Palliser , who had just retired from the headship of the Diplomatic Service . |
| 21 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 22 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 23 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 24 | In the event Clinton won the New York contest comfortably , and saw Brown beaten into third place by Paul Tsongas who had already withdrawn from the contest . |
| 25 | Paul Tsongas , who had formally withdrawn from the contest , polled 12 , 8 and 10 per cent respectively . |
| 26 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |
| 27 | The responses could be analysed for differences in opinion depending on the time since the respondent had suffered from the illness or between those who had ever and those who had never suffered from the illness in question . |
| 28 | Not only the Siberian natives , who had long suffered from the systematic cruelty and exploitation of the invading white men ( see James Forsyth 's account in Chapter 4 ) , but also the ‘ old inhabitants ’ ( starozhily ) , Russian peasants , citizens and merchants fell victim of their virtual reign of terror . |
| 29 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 30 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |