Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 2 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 3 | During this period following the collapse of Roman rule in the West , sometimes still called the ‘ dark ages ’ , Western Christians rethought the culture they had inherited from the ancient world . |
| 4 | They had read from the paltry choice of books in the Library . |
| 5 | Acknowledging this they presented the Club with an engraved silver rose bowl in 1984 in appreciation of some 15 years of play at Henley which they had chosen from the Daily Telegraph Book on Golf Courses ! |
| 6 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 7 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 8 | Both Nicolae and Elena constantly emphasized in their speeches that they had sprung from the common people and therefore shared their hopes and sufferings . |
| 9 | Certainly some of the female science students felt that they had benefited from a single-sex education . |