Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years before lie had resigned from the forces for their sakes and was personnel manager of an oil refinery in Perth . |
| 2 | Maj. Joseph Michel François , acknowledged by diplomats to have been a ringleader , insisted to foreign journalists that the main impetus had come from the ranks of the 8,000-strong army who feared the growing influence of Aristide 's new foreign-trained 50-member presidential guard . |
| 3 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) Seventy per cent of the sick group had suffered from the effects of serious pregnancy and/or birth complications as babies . |
| 5 | They knew she took bread to her mother , jam she had made from the blackcurrants at the foot of the garden but the basket always came back heavy with fresh eggs , a bunch of carrots from the bog , plums that they loved , sweet hard yellow apples . |
| 6 | As well as launching the series , he had launched himself ; he had moved from the ranks of a contributor to the little poetry magazines into the mainstream ; his apprenticeship days were over . |
| 7 | It seemed far more likely that , as Dr Gyggle suggested , I had become aware of Samuel Northcliffe separately and incorporated information I had gleaned from the newspapers into my fantasy . |
| 8 | Until the advent of man in physical geography it could be argued that physical geographers had escaped from the effects of human activity by concentrating their endeavours upon rural and unmodified spatial areas and upon time scales prior to the time when human activity began to exercise a significant influence . |
| 9 | They were no doubt relieved , as Theo definitely was , that he had escaped from the clutches of ‘ that woman ’ . |
| 10 | The opposition parties , led by the Japan Socialist Party ( JSP ) and its charismatic female leader Takako Doi , had benefited from the problems of the ruling party and had captured enough seats in the Upper House elections in July 1989 to deny the LDP an overall majority [ see p. 36800-01 ] . |
| 11 | As soon as she had recovered from the months of Rhoda 's illness , and come to terms with her death , and adjusted to the sudden change in her circumstances , she would do something about it . |
| 12 | Viola Machin , clearly , had recovered from the shocks of last night . |
| 13 | At sea , the Franco-Castilian alliance , which had sprung from the events in Spain between 1366 and 1369 , began to have effect . |
| 14 | It was here that the Toraja believed their first ancestors had descended from the Pleiades in starships to populate the verdant valleys into which we now descended . |
| 15 | The scene of Essex 's rebellion , in which the Earl never appears , has been judged unfavourably , especially the running commentary provided by the blind ballad-singer.I wonder how widely praised this scene would be if it had issued from the hands of Brecht or one of his collaborators . |
| 16 | She not only had the figure of a mannequin but she had learned from the girls at the salon how to walk , how to hold her head up , how to appear perfectly poised . |
| 17 | The Senior Account Executives ( SAEs ) at DPR Futures were dealers who had graduated from the ranks of the accounts executives due to their exceptional sales performances . |
| 18 | By 1317 the manor had passed from the hands of the de Costentin family into those of the de Caversham family who , in turn , passed it on to the Herberts in 1550 . |
| 19 | This sometimes made for superficial complication ; the Third Republic conferred no titles of nobility , yet more were used than ever before in France , thanks to the inflation and confusion of aristocracies which had flowed from the creations of Bourbon , Orleanist and two Imperial régimes . |