Example sentences of "she had [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Remember , all her life she had wandered from place to place , sleeping in a tent or under the stars . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gwenellen was at tea , and reading a letter she had had from Aline by the second post . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return . |