Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the young Coleridge would read anything he could find , and at the age of six had already progressed from the tales of Tom Hickathrift and Jack the Giant-Killer to Robinson Crusoe and The Arabian Nights . |
| 2 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 3 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 4 | Pensioners and the disabled had also benefitted from the Tories , he continued , claiming Labour 's proposals would cost over £10bn . |
| 5 | Ermentrude 's father had originally come from the Worms area , but he had made his career , thanks to imperial favour , in the west . |
| 6 | North had now retired from the Marines and , in his blue suit and ‘ rather bright ’ red tie , he seemed to have shrunk , becoming ‘ forlorn ’ and ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 7 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 8 | There was a true feeling of achievement attached to our little ‘ I skied down a mountain' certificate , and a bit of weight had definitely dropped from the thighs on to the slopes . |
| 9 | Well he had actually retired from the police force , he 'd been cited and he 'd been cleared , but he was actually , as it turned out later , practising paedophilia and as he realized that in fact the investigation was coming close to him , he shot himself |