Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a letter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bloom got on to me and said he had received a letter from this young . |
| 2 | On another occasion I had received a letter from my mother — not usually given to handing out advice : |
| 3 | He said he had received a letter ‘ out of the blue ’ , asking if the museum would like it . |
| 4 | A government spokesman said Professor Guido de Marco , Foreign Minister , had received a letter from his Libyan counterpart informing him that the two bomb suspects had asked to be tried in Malta , and asking Malta to accede to this request . |
| 5 | Jennie called me into the office and said that I could n't go as she had received a letter from my mother . |
| 6 | For example : Mr. Butlin , the house surgeon and secretary , reported that he had received a letter from Mr. Whitworth , the Town Clerk , informing him that Bedford Corporation had agreed to subscribe five guineas per annum . |
| 7 | Mrs and Mrs Singh had received a letter offering Balbinder a place at Cedars . |
| 8 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 9 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
| 10 | Clearing his throat noisily , Price perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose and announced he had received a letter from India . |
| 11 | DM informed the Group that he had received a letter from the Open University , who have taken over the CNAA 's role in validating research degrees undertaken outside the academic sector . |
| 12 | The Geneva talks were described by Pérez de Cuéllar as of " psychological " importance in preparing the ground for future peace talks within the framework of Resolution R98 and the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) reported on July 6 that Saddam had received a letter of thanks from Rafsanjani for the assistance and sympathy shown by the Iraqi government and people to the Iranian earthquake victims [ see p. 37522 ] . |
| 13 | had received a letter from an Australian student on reconstruction work , with photographs . |
| 14 | Then , only six months since , he had received a letter ( ‘ Private and Strictly Confidential ’ ) . |
| 15 | Now on the Friday , the eighteenth of October , er Peter telephoned the plaintiff 's home to speak to Mr erm but on this occasion he spoke to his assistant June and er , she was someone who at this stage was involved in the planning and the running of the business together with acting very much as his personal assistant and Mr had a conversation with June on the telephone in which he told her that he had received a letter from the solicitors which indicated that they had not yet , er , the landlords er licence to assign had not yet been given . |
| 16 | Kakilashvili said : ‘ We had received a letter from UEFA instructing us to cover expenses for referees , so on the eve of the match a number of officials presented four envelopes to the referee ( and linesmen ) . |
| 17 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 18 | Izetbegovic on Aug. 3 had addressed a letter to the UN Security Council in which he demanded that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be allowed to import arms in order to " achieve the right to individual and collective self-defence " guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter . |
| 19 | Dr Gerard fought back , by saying that he had seen a letter from Warburton to the printer , complaining that one half of Scotland 's clergy were fanatics , and the other half were infidels , but Johnson still gainsaid him ; Warburton , he believed , wrote as he spoke — without thinking ; ‘ Sir , the very worst way of being intimate , is by scribbling . ’ |
| 20 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 21 | The storm over the ‘ Squidgy ’ tapes kept the pressure on their marriage , and the paperback version of Morton 's book was published last month with a new chapter which alleged Prince Philip had written a letter to Diana in June . |
| 22 | Software602 sales manager Jan Muhlfeit said that the teenagers , all aged between 16 and 18 , had written a letter to the Alliance apologising for their actions — they claimed they did not know that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 23 | Milton had written a letter to one of the Stirlingshire lairds , assuring him of his friendship and advising him that one of the laird 's sons had been given a post as a salt officer . |
| 24 | Anna went down the road to post her letter , for she had written a letter to accompany the cheque , in which she reiterated her sorrow about the death of the cat and added that if there was anything she could do , Miss Jakob had only to let her know . |
| 25 | Chris had written a letter to Tina Jelly in Aldershot saying that he still loved her and missed her a lot , but was sure that until he came home she would be able to go out with his mates from the Royal Signals . |
| 26 | When in April 1949 Mary Trevelyan had written a letter in which she explained her feelings for him , and in fact suggested marriage , he explained in his reply that although he valued her friendship he was no longer capable of reciprocating such feelings for anyone . |
| 27 | That same night he had written a letter which she first saw on opening her eyes , which she had read over her coffee , wearing , she remembered now , her new negligee with its neck of coral swansdown . |
| 28 | 14.45 : Secretary informed me that Class Teacher had written a letter to parent of child with Head Lice to replace one written by Head . |
| 29 | If someone had written a letter like that to her , she would quite probably be floating high above the assorted pickles and jams at this very moment on a pin , fluffy cloud , with a thousand invisible voices murmuring music into her ears . |
| 30 | Who had written a letter to Sir Charles to ask for a meeting ? |