Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out in the yard , Alejandro had turned from the charming rogue of yesterday into a roaring tyrant , bellowing instructions to all the boys . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , against the pope 's better judgement , Edward had recalled from the papal Curia another exile , Winchelsey . |
| 3 | Its leader , Mahmut Alinak , who in May had resigned from the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP — the junior party in the governing coalition ) said that he hoped that the OZEP would absorb the former Kurdish nationalist People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) . |
| 4 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 5 | After the winged Soul Eater had gone from the low-ceilinged Workshops , its leathery wings beating on the night , the soul of the mutilated boy held in a merciless grip between its claws , the slaves had scuttled back to their tasks and the Robemaker had conjured up another of the thin , whiplike lights that had lashed out and thrown Nuadu to the floor . |
| 6 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 7 | From when he was a young man , Dr Carrington had suffered from a chronic lung illness . |
| 8 | But Dexter knew Blanche had benefited from a growing friendship with a woman she had met on a management course at the police college at Bramshill — a former commander in the Met who had taken to lecturing after a heart attack . |
| 9 | Some of the women who were followers of Jesus had returned from the tomb where Jesus had been buried , saying that it was empty , that they had been told in a vision that Jesus had risen from the dead . |
| 10 | Before he had time to do so , Caballeros and Bugner had arrived from the 16th green . |
| 11 | Mr Athulathmudali had defected from the ruling United National Party in 1991 and led a powerful opposition group , the Democratic United National Front . |
| 12 | Thus , within a period of about 300 years , the Franks had developed from a general confederacy of Germanic invaders with mere tribal links , into a fully-fledged kingdom . |
| 13 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 14 | Having been on the run for nearly four years , Rudi had grown from an early teenager into a young adult . |
| 15 | When Tony Eley and his Irish wife Mary purchased Braemount House in 1986 they were newcomers to the hospitality business ; Mary had retired from the nursing profession and Tony from the Royal Air Force . |
| 16 | Three weeks ago , police closed the investigation after a medical review by Dr Iain West , a Home Office pathologist , indicated Mr Threlfall had died from a self-induced overdose of narcotics . |
| 17 | Herodotus , the Greek , claimed that the Etruscans who held the centre of Italy had migrated from the Middle East , while another Greek , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , argued for a lineage that was home-spun , the Etruscan having evolved from tribes that were contemporaries of the Golasecca people . |
| 18 | With as many flats as a Parisian tower block and the ‘ pits ’ affording no more than a shove out of the sand , it was 16 days before the old fort hove into view 338Km after Algiers had disappeared from the rear-view mirror . |
| 19 | ( Iran had dissented from the final OPEC agreement in September on grounds that it did not impose strict enough controls on output — see p. 39120 — but had also demanded a larger proportional share for itself . |
| 20 | Engels believed that the ‘ callous , narrow-minded and conceited ’ Junkers had learned from the French Revolution that the system they maintained was doomed , but in reality the Junkers crushed the rising and insisted on ‘ service ’ until an agricultural review had been conducted in 1865 — after which they abandoned serfdom with great reluctance . |
| 21 | Lothar had suffered from an exceptional mortality-rate among his leading supporters in 836 – 7 . |
| 22 | The sense of destiny which Diana had felt from an early age shaped , albeit unconsciously , her relationships with the opposite sex . |
| 23 | Then she got more excited and told me that a Mrs Boatman had called from the National Insurance and was ever so attractive and charming . |
| 24 | But suppose Lorton had intended from the first to rob Newley , to murder him , and to present the police with a strong case against someone else ? |
| 25 | When Rachel had recovered from the customary burst of rage which Damian Flint so effortlessly produced in her every time she saw him , she went out on to the terrace , putting on a brave smile for her father . |