Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 2 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |
| 3 | On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) . |
| 4 | That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body . |
| 5 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 6 | Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy . |
| 7 | Behind them were Austin Currie , Proinsias Mac Aonghusa and David Green of Citizens for PR in the Irish Republic , and three Westminster Labour MPs , Russell Kerr , Ann Kerr and John Ryan , who had travelled directly from the Labour Party conference with Gerry Fitt . |
| 8 | The les fortunate guests had to come daily from the new hotel on Persepolis or even form Shiraz , forty miles away . |
| 9 | She had turned away from the food-processing factories and chemical plants spewing bilious yellow smoke to gaze towards the east , to the mouth of the Estuary where the river ran out into the North Sea . |
| 10 | There were new forms of technology coming into existence then , one , we had moved away from the automatic er type of machinery to what they called er digital controlled and numerical controlled machines . |
| 11 | Haverford had jotted away from the furthest reaches of the King 's Road for the past forty years . |
| 12 | The emphasis had shifted radically from the child-centred approach of 1948 to the Seebohm concern for family and community . |
| 13 | They had advanced eastwards from the other side of the gate and destroyed the unsuspecting Night Goblin rearguard before blowing the gates with gunpowder . |
| 14 | Cranston himself said nothing until they had walked away from the royal enclosure . |
| 15 | Defence was linked in the Unionist mind with imperial consolidation through tariffs : the new policy of 1901–2 had followed directly from the military weakness revealed by the Boer War and the approach of probable European conflict reinforced the same cause . |
| 16 | Unlike its counterpart in Lithuania , however , which had split decisively from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ; 37168 ] , the Estonian CP decided on a six-month transitional period before taking a final vote on the issue of the party 's future relations with the CPSU . |
| 17 | Sellafield 's Assistant Director , Projects and Decommissioning , , presented the prizes and paid tribute to organisers who had worked tirelessly from the first tee-off at 7.30 am to the presentation of the final raffle prize at 10.30 pm . |
| 18 | We had wandered far from the old farm buildings . |
| 19 | This was the subject of long and enthusiastic review essays by Macaulay and Sir Walter Scott , who noted that Pilgrim 's Progress was unique as a book whose popularity had spread upwards from the lower to the upper classes instead of in the other direction . |
| 20 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |
| 21 | The race of Squats had evolved away from the human norm inside the caves and cramped , carved-out seams of bleak mining worlds which were barren save for minerals . |
| 22 | All the parties had learnt much from the single transferable vote elections of 1973 and this informed their strategy and tactics in 1975 . |
| 23 | The character of the state had changed decisively from the coercive apparatus of monarchical power to the increasingly bureaucratic ( but determinedly laissez-faire ) administration of the first capitalist nation . |