Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had retired from the Royal Navy in April 1955 at the age of 46 , but had maintained informal contacts with the intelligence fraternity . |
| 2 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 3 | He had seen from the Select Committee 's Report that Scott had studied the Greek and Italian styles as well as Gothic and , being ‘ a person of great talent ’ , he hoped he would put ‘ a more lively and enlightened front to his buildings ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On that day , twenty-seven days earlier , he had travelled from the Syrian Embassy back to his rented home in Kingston-upon-Thames , and there he had , for the first time , informed his wife of their changed circumstances . |
| 6 | From a free-kick on the left , Gannon swung the ball deep and Morris , not as heavy as he had appeared from the previous half-hour , made the game safe with a soaring header . |
| 7 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 8 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 9 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 10 | In the 64th minute Gascoigne performed a similar duty for England but , after he had crossed from the right-hand byline , Newell rose to head past Lekovic , the substitute goalkeeper . |
| 11 | The tie he had unearthed from the neglected depths of his jacket pocket was badly creased and stained with what he strongly suspected to be taramosalata . |
| 12 | ’ 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 . |
| 13 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 14 | That situation was to change when USAAC General Hap Arnold decided , based upon information he had received from the British about a new aircraft power source , to get the Air Corps involved in jets . |
| 15 | He was concerned about de Gaulle 's anti-Americanism , but was pleased by the support he had received from the French leader in 1958–61 over the Berlin crises with Russia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | To reduce this the hearing aid wearer will turn down the volume of his aid , and would therefore lose the amplification he had gained from the Audio Telescope . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Malekith and his followers already had the Shrine of Asuryan in their possession , and Malekith possessed the crown that he had taken from the dead Phoenix King . |
| 20 | Hamilton showed him the photographs he had taken from the German flier , and told the Prime Minister that they were of Rudolf Hess , who had crashed a fighter plane into a field in Scotland the night before . |
| 21 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 22 | He had resigned from the Military Council in April 1989 and had subsequently been arrested and charged with illegal possession of arms and ammunition . |
| 23 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 24 | He had known from an early age that Jamel , as the older brother , would take over as leader of Zimbala once their father died . |
| 25 | He could n't keep his hands off women , and most likely , under his brown flawless skin , he was riddled with disease — disease he had caught from the soft , unwholesome flesh of nameless women . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |