Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , a group representing European human rights organizations which had returned from a 12-day visit to Burundi , maintained the same day that at least 3,000 people had been killed in reprisals by the army and paramilitary groups after the rebellion . |
| 2 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 3 | Rugs in jewel shades of emerald and topaz were thrown over the terracotta-tiled floor and the curtains , like the sofa and armchair covers , she had sewn from a heavy cream fabric . |
| 4 | She wanted to be comforted with closeness , to forget everything in such immediate intimacy , to be told that it was all right , that the world was real , and she had woken from a bad , bad dream … |
| 5 | A post-mortem examination disclosed she had died from a single knife wound , which had severed the artery . |
| 6 | J. T. Murphy , who had resigned from a leading position in the Communist Party in 1932 , became the Secretary of the League on the death of E. F. Wise . |
| 7 | We had emerged from a private wall into the crazy world of summer skiers , no doubt fresh from their BMWs in the car park below , and bemused by the intrusion of this odd , dilapidated pair of chastened alpinists . |
| 8 | We sometimes write down the stories and one summer with other children we put on a play we had adapted from a Russian folktale in Folktales of Many Lands . |
| 9 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Certainly some of the female science students felt that they had benefited from a single-sex education . |
| 12 | By the second year , it had moved from a sectoral base to a country base , to help achieve cross-sector policy objectives . |
| 13 | It had fallen from a high point of $90 per tonne to as low as $30 per tonne . |
| 14 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 15 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 16 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 17 | ’ Donning a pair of small round plastic spectacles which he had extracted from a hidden pocket in the skirts of his frock-coat , he shambled over to the porter 's desk and ferreted around . |
| 18 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 19 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 20 | Stephen had given her the task of co-ordinating the interiors for the hotel , following the design schemes he had commissioned from a well-known Paris-based designer . |
| 21 | One of the writer 's earliest memories of Nottingham comes from 1962 when he had alighted from a local train from Sheffield at the Midland Station . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 23 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 24 | The story of King Bladud was first chronicled by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( c. 1100–1154 ) in his Historia Regum Britanniae , a collection of mythology and history relating to the early history of Britain , which he claimed he had translated from a lost book of Breton legends . |
| 25 | His room was drab and poky , but clean , rather as he had expected from a rundown lower middle-class Viennese pension . |
| 26 | With Colette , he had graduated from a hand-turned copier to their publishing company , Mystical Medley . |
| 27 | He was an evacuee , said some ; others that he had absconded from a Borstal . |
| 28 | When he had woken from a faint sleep on the ice cold floor of the cell , Holly had known that the lice had found him . |
| 29 | It was wrong , for instance , to treat the great apes as the ancestral form from which humankind had sprung , since the apes would have undergone changes of their own since their ancestors and ours had diverged from a single root . |