Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had emerged from apathy into active aggression , and my housemistress 's report for the term includes the advice , ‘ Sheila must learn to curb her natural exuberance . ’ |
| 2 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 3 | She had gone from happiness to misery and back again in what seemed no more than hours , and the speed of the changes had left her with a sense of unreality that she found impossible to shake off . |
| 4 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 5 | Remember , all her life she had wandered from place to place , sleeping in a tent or under the stars . |
| 6 | Ever since she had learned from Rose of his mother 's red hair , she had fondly permitted her idle daydream , her secret wishes , to grow and flower as if indeed they existed . |
| 7 | Gwenellen was at tea , and reading a letter she had had from Aline by the second post . |
| 8 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 9 | We do not know at what date Matilda had gone to Wilton , but probably she had come from Scotland as a young girl with her aunt Christina in 1086 to be educated at Wilton . |
| 10 | There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return . |
| 11 | I mean the quotes we had ranged from sort of |
| 12 | We had driven from Montignac near Lascaux . |
| 13 | The fullest enjoyment of Giorgione 's altarpiece could , he claimed , only be realised if we had walked from Venice to Castelfranco |
| 14 | The fullest enjoyment of Giorgione 's altarpiece could , he claimed , only be realised if we had walked from Venice to Castelfranco . |
| 15 | We had arrived from Harehills on the up and up with the booming coal industry . |
| 16 | On 18th , January 1912 , Captain Robert Falcon Scott , and his colleagues , reached the South Pole to find that Amundsen had reached there before them , and the whole party perished in appalling weather on their return journey to their ship Terra Nova , in which they had sailed from England in 1910 . |
| 17 | Upon their marriage they had moved from Allerthorpe to the market town and in 1881 were living and working in the Market Place , next door to Henry King the ratcatcher and close to two other saddlers . |
| 18 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 19 | Here they were , a nomadic people they had fled from Egypt from the , from the bondage and tyranny of oppression , and God had provided a land which was flowing with milk and honey , it was theirs ! |
| 20 | The agreement and friendship between the two men was sealed when the Ukrainians insisted in the toasts being drunk in the special pepper vodka they had brought from home for just such an occasion . |
| 21 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 22 | The concern known since 1873 as the Gutehoffnungshütte A.G. was by no means the largest in the Ruhr , but by then it had extended from iron-founding into quarrying and mining iron ore and coal — it produced practically all the 215,000 tons of iron ore and half the 415,000 tons of coal it required — and had diversified into transport , rolling and the construction of bridges , ships , and a variety of machinery . |
| 23 | It had come from America in a parcel . |
| 24 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 25 | The best portrait of Chaucer was one he had made from life for his patron 's copy of the Regiment of Princes , where it accompanied Hoccleve 's praise of his master . |
| 26 | As for Uncle , he had suffered from rheumatism for as long as I can remember , so , all-in-all , we always had more work than we could really cope with . |
| 27 | He died 16 November 1915 at his home in New Cross , south London , to which he had moved from Whitechapel in 1901 , and he was buried in Nunhead cemetery . |
| 28 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 29 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 30 | He had moved from Camberwell to Central with William Johnstone and at his request . |