Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had blamed everything from arthritis to a bowel condition . |
| 2 | Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills . |
| 3 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 4 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 5 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 6 | His father had followed him from room to room , half a dozen strides behind him all through that late afternoon . |
| 7 | His work had taken him from London to the Arunta , from Boston Brahmins to Buddhist scriptures ; he too was an explorer who had left his native home . |
| 8 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |