Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
| 2 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 3 | Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 . |
| 4 | Detectives say Spiro , 46 , had calmly walked from bedroom to bedroom at his rented home near San Diego and killed his family ‘ execution-style ’ . |
| 5 | However , in the fifteen to twenty-four age group , many of whom had probably benefited from education since 1975 , the figures were 7.7 and 24.7 per cent respectively . |
| 6 | Famlio and the pirates , who had clearly learned from spies about Gharr 's captive , and her escape . |
| 7 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 8 | His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies . |
| 9 | The Marquis of Rockingham at Wentworth Hall in Yorkshire was successful in producing flowers of Cereus compressus , the beautiful American torch thistle , which James Gordon had triumphantly raised from seed at Mile End ( See opp . ) . |
| 10 | He had then fought from Tripoli to Tunis and in July 1943 was shipped with Montgomery 's Eighth Army to Sicily . |
| 11 | But his great ambition was to discover the remains of the famous Temple of Artemis ( or Diana ) at Ephesus , south of Smyrna , which had completely disappeared from sight in the middle ages . |
| 12 | He had recently travelled from Tasmania to Norway in search of the perfect 2,000 metres of flat water . |
| 13 | Charles Taylor , a former government employee who was charged in 1984 with theft of government funds [ see p. 32898 ] and had subsequently escaped from custody in the USA , claimed that a previously unknown group led by him , the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , was responsible for the rebellion . |
| 14 | On April 30 a television programme had claimed that the Labour Party had hosted secret fund-raising dinners for prominent business executives , that certain companies had made significant secret contributions to the party 's campaign fund , and that these had subsequently profited from sales of state assets . |
| 15 | Mrs Watson had never suffered from depression before and a pathologist confirmed she had no signs of natural disease . |