Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 2 | In his introduction he said that this budget had to signal a radical departure from practice in recent years , especially in stressing an anti-inflationary orientation and in moving away from state paternalism towards private enterprises . |
| 3 | It goes without saying that he was deeply interested in Factota Limited — and in the girls themselves , of whom he had heard a great deal from Roger Kenyon , who was his friend . |
| 4 | On June 14 the court had heard a written testimony from Prime Minister Felipe González in which he denied any knowledge of the creation of the GAL . |
| 5 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 6 | The claim was made in an article published in the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 6 , which suggested that Clinton had received a four-year deferment from the draft by promising to join a reserve officers ' training programme ( ROTP ) at the University of Arkansas . |
| 7 | The government stated that its appeal for famine aid totalling $136,000,000 had received a weak response from international donors [ see pp. 37561 ; 37643 ; 37644 ] . |
| 8 | John Bluett had received a promissory note from his son , William , the present defendant , in respect of money lent by him to William . |
| 9 | A few years later , that sum was awarded to Robert Maxwell for the false suggestion that he was angling for a peerage , while ten times that amount was lavished on Jeffrey Archer in revenge for the suggestion that he had received a sexual favour from a prostitute he had admitted to paying to leave the country . |
| 10 | However , Inravision Television in Bogotá reported on Aug. 13 that it had received a faxed message from the cartel which stated that the truce would remain in force . |
| 11 | This year Michael had received a special briefing from the Bond Corporation to check the source of leaks of some highly confidential commercial information . |
| 12 | US Secretary of State James Baker announced on Aug. 12 that the USA had received a formal request from the deposed Kuwaiti government to enforce UN sanctions under the self-defence article ( Article 51 ) of the UN Charter . |
| 13 | Back in the office Holly had received a curt memo from Maureen asking why the Donaldson story had not been published . |
| 14 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 15 | His people had wrung a meagre living from it . |
| 16 | Meanwhile between December 1937 and July 1938 204 Squadron had undertaken a long-distance cruise from England to Australia as participants in celebrations commemorating Sydney University and the State of New South Wales ’ 150th anniversary . |
| 17 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 18 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 19 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 20 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 21 | A Texan jury on December 20th convicted Don ‘ Big Daddy ’ Dixon for using his bank as a personal piggy-bank ; the next day prosecutors announced that they had squeezed a guilty plea from Edwin ‘ Fast Eddie ’ McBirney , who admitted to artful manipulation of deposits at Sunbelt Savings Association , the largest S&L ever to fail in Texas . |
| 22 | Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade , announced yesterday that he had accepted a statutory undertaking from the SMMB to that effect . |
| 23 | Ciskei was one of 10 " homelands " or bantustans created under the apartheid regime ; four of these , including Ciskei , had accepted a nominal independence from South Africa which no other country had recognized , but which constituted an additional obstacle to the transition to a post-apartheid South Africa . |
| 24 | That was Sir James Campbell 's undoing in this section of his county , for he had undertaken to get the presentation for Bruce in order to oblige one of his friends who had accepted a nominal vote from him , but the friend , David Gourlay , was only a small heritor , and the bulk of the landed property in the parish together with the kirk session were firmly attached to Mr. Ure . |
| 25 | Towards the end of 1949 he had met a young psychiatrist from Australia , Frank Tait . |
| 26 | One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack . |
| 27 | Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ . |
| 28 | Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half . |
| 29 | The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert . |
| 30 | Shortly before this great day Vigilant 's crew had made a large seizure from a Finnish vessel berthed in the Thames , the goods concerned being unearthed from a very clever concealment , and the Queen was very interested to hear about the incident . |