Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 2 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 3 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 4 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 5 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 6 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 7 | He had clearly emerged from a rougher mould than the well-mannered and smooth-tongued Golding . |
| 8 | She had recently emerged from a much-publicised divorce from Frank Sinatra and a month 's transcendental meditation with the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India . |