Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , within a period of about 300 years , the Franks had developed from a general confederacy of Germanic invaders with mere tribal links , into a fully-fledged kingdom . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The cause of death had been the terrible bludgeoning he had received from a blunt instrument . |
| 4 | He mentioned the insults his father had received from a young man near Trantridge who had a blind mother . |
| 5 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 6 | It had fallen from a high point of $90 per tonne to as low as $30 per tonne . |
| 7 | J. T. Murphy , who had resigned from a leading position in the Communist Party in 1932 , became the Secretary of the League on the death of E. F. Wise . |
| 8 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 9 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 12 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 13 | The information had come from a reliable source and they had no reason to doubt it . |
| 14 | The tip had come from a reliable source . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 17 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 18 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 19 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 20 | On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained . |
| 21 | He considered that all the world 's religions had originated from a single source and were the ‘ imaginations formed when such men were ignorant of their own nature , were devoid of experience , and were governed by their random conjectures which … were far from the truth ’ . |
| 22 | It was wrong , for instance , to treat the great apes as the ancestral form from which humankind had sprung , since the apes would have undergone changes of their own since their ancestors and ours had diverged from a single root . |
| 23 | From when he was a young man , Dr Carrington had suffered from a chronic lung illness . |
| 24 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 25 | The Tsarist system had suffered from a similar defect . |
| 26 | It will be remembered that during the last 30 years of life the King had suffered from a distressing illness that resulted in his being kept under guard and even put into a straight-jacket : if he had said anything about the origin of the instrument it is unlikely that much weight would be given to his words . |
| 27 | The Salvation Army had grown from a small backstreet mission in the East End of London to an international organisation . |
| 28 | Rugs in jewel shades of emerald and topaz were thrown over the terracotta-tiled floor and the curtains , like the sofa and armchair covers , she had sewn from a heavy cream fabric . |
| 29 | In May the National Executive decided to give official recognition to Advance which , since its foundation in December 1935 , had risen from a local circulation of a few hundred to a sale of 15,000 reaching the entire membership of the League . |
| 30 | By the second year , it had moved from a sectoral base to a country base , to help achieve cross-sector policy objectives . |