Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 2 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 3 | At this stage Castro , at least in public , was holding himself aloof from two disputing tendencies which had emerged from the various parties to the revolution . |
| 4 | Lowe 's interests extended to a wide range of issues — sexual politics , the environment , nuclear disarmament , anti-racism — all of which had emerged from the 1960s hippy and student-based protest movements . |
| 5 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 6 | Some were small but violent , like Islamic Jihad , which had broken from the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1960s . |
| 7 | Manhattan District Court Judge Milton Pollack announced on March 9 that a single " global " settlement had been reached to the hundreds of civil litigation suits which had arisen from the 1990 collapse of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank [ see pp. 37412-13 ; 37848 ] . |
| 8 | The Forum of the Democratic Right ( FPD — which had split from the Democratic Union in September — see p. 39106 ) , the Republican Coalition and the Upper Silesia and Zaglebie Conservative-Liberal Group on Dec. 6 merged to form the Conservative Party ( PK ) . |
| 9 | An Autonomous ( Autónomo ) faction of the FPMR , which had split from the main body in November 1987 , vowed , however , to continue the armed struggle . |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll lose all the spoons tonight ! ’ the Countess said with undisguised satisfaction , then turned as applause greeted the stately polonaise which had progressed from the far side of the house , advanced through the entrance hall and now entered the ballroom to open the dancing formally . |
| 11 | The people of the Middle Ages inherited sea-walls and drainage channels which had survived from the Roman occupation . |
| 12 | In a speech on March 30 to mark the Moslem feast-day of Lailat al-Qadr , President Hosni Mubarak made more direct criticism than previously of " religious fanaticism " which had strayed from the correct teachings of Islam , and " ethnic fanaticism " ( the latter an allusion to attacks against Coptic Christians ) . |
| 13 | The pie parade , which included about fifty floats which had started from the neighbouring village of Scissett , arrived late at the pie field , having been stuck on various sections of the route , including the entrance to the field itself . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Scholars continue to unearth new facts and new material : one of the most exciting events of the 1980s was the almost accidental rediscovery in Kraków , Poland , of a substantial number of major autograph manuscripts ( including The Magic Flute , the C minor Mass , and the ‘ Jupiter ’ Symphony ) which had disappeared from the Prussian State Library in Berlin during the Second World War , and which were feared lost for ever . |
| 16 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 17 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 18 | She had run from the exploding craft and collapsed . |
| 19 | Giovanna Sassanta had given Julia a rather different view of the fighting in the Cassino valley from the one she had gained from the British newspapers at the time . |
| 20 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While they drank to celebrate the arrangement , Mrs Corney told Mr Bumble about old Sally 's death , and the unknown gold object which she had stolen from the dead body of the young woman . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | A post-mortem examination disclosed she had died from a single knife wound , which had severed the artery . |
| 25 | The kind she had encountered from the languid woman in the Big Bamboo . |
| 26 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 27 | Interestingly , there are signs that those who had escaped from the royal mouvance were not entirely comfortable in their independence . |
| 28 | He believed that the central problem was that of helping the existing aged poor who had suffered from the bad industrial conditions of the past , and that younger generations should be induced to save . |
| 29 | They were almost all men who had risen from the lower middle or even working class . |
| 30 | The reviewer called him a ‘ Joycean Hell 's Angel ’ who had created from the tawdry San Francisco Tenderloin district ‘ an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell ’ . |