Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] from [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian Interior Ministry forces had been withdrawn from South Ossetia on April 26 , 1992 . |
| 2 | However , more guerrillas had been sent from North Korea in March 1950 and the number had tripled . |
| 3 | Andy Williamson , the League 's assistant secretary , revealed yesterday that a letter had been sent from Lytham St Anne 's requesting permission to use Wembley . |
| 4 | Oliver insisted she had been followed from Fleet Street and that it was likely the police had tapped her office telephone . |
| 5 | Pauline read a letter which had been received from Bob Bascombe thanking the Society for the flowers sent to June . |
| 6 | A letter had been received from E. Coleman , surgeon , of Palsgrave Place , Temple , but this was held in abeyance until 7 January 1794 , A week later , Clark of Edinburgh , who had been offered the post of professor , was asked to make his mind up , whereupon he declined the appointment . |
| 7 | The house surgeon received £3.3s.0d. for attending a coroner 's inquest on a patient who had died in the infirmary , and Samuel Whitbread , in his capacity as magistrate , exacted contributions from time to time : in August 1813 , for example , the infirmary funds benefited by £10 which had been received from John Schoner and William Edwards ‘ paid in atonement to stay of prosecution for disturbing the Methodist meeting at Biggleswade during Divine Service ’ . |
| 8 | Council chairman Phyll Hendy said Point Clear had been isolated from St Osyth several times already this year when the causeway between the two settlements had flooded . |
| 9 | Although the original Oct-11 clone had been isolated from testis cDNA using PCR ( 30 ) , screening of three different testis cDNA libraries , including one that was unamplified , failed to reveal any clones corresponding to Oct-11 . |
| 10 | In 1914 Britain maintained only nine embassies ; and two of these were outside Europe and had been upgraded from legation status relatively recently ( Washington in 1889 and Tokyo in 1905 ) . |
| 11 | Thus , by the end of the first week of August , between 8,000 and 9,000 soldiers had been transferred from North Africa to Seville , and the way was open for more to follow throughout the summer . |
| 12 | Mr Robin said exceptional losses of £68.4 million had been incurred from property writedowns , the loss on a Swiss bond deal and restructuring costs . |
| 13 | By the time Ceauşescu came to lay the foundation stone of the palace in June 1984 , its title had been changed from Casa Poporlui to Casa Republicii ( from the ‘ House of the People ’ to ‘ House of the Republic ’ ) just in case , the local jokers remarked , the people got it into their heads to move in as well . |
| 14 | Explaining their resignations in terms of the desire to " recover [ their ] freedom " , Wade said that he and the other PDS ministers had been excluded from government action and had only been party to decisions over " trivial " issues . |
| 15 | The prosecution say the wedding ring and the chain had been taken from Mrs McGurk by Hagans after he 'd strangled her and hidden her body in undergrowth . |
| 16 | She had been evacuated from wartime Britain to South Africa with her two young daughters ; she was married to the violinist Leonard Hirsch , but when she met Herbert Cranko they fell in love . |
| 17 | On June 10 , 14,500 US service personnel and their families had been evacuated from Clark Air Base , 15 km east of Pinatubo , to Subic Bay naval base , about 40 km south-west of the volcano . |
| 18 | Cost Kathy down the road was telling me that erm a Yugo car had been stolen from Alexandra Road |
| 19 | It was reported on 14 October that eight sixteenth-century paintings valued at £25 million had been stolen from Weimar Castle in the former DDR . |
| 20 | A pair of Adam candelabra had been stolen from Mr. Reid 's home . |
| 21 | He also admitted attempting to defraud the Provincial Insurance Company and falsely representing to police officers that the car had been stolen from Cotton Street , Castle Douglas . |
| 22 | Redcar MP Mo Mowlam returned on Thursday night from a train trip to London to find her white Ford Sierra had been stolen from Darlington railway station . |
| 23 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 24 | The political sting had been drawn from pacifist witness . |
| 25 | These had been purchased from Atget estate in 1928 by the American photographer Berenice Abbott , then a pupil of Man Ray . |
| 26 | He had been expelled from grammar school at the age of sixteen , manufactured tie-dye T-shirts , and then worked in the refreshment kiosk in the monkey-house at London Zoo , where he had the distinction of organising the first strike ( of staff , not animals ) in the zoo 's history . |
| 27 | Tolkien had been brought from South Africa at the age of four ; Lewis was a Belfast man schooled in England for whom , like his Mend Tolkien , the Western Front had proved the deepest trauma of a largely bookish life ; Charles Williams , an Oxford publisher who died in 1945 , was a Londoner ; Dorothy Sayers , who died a dozen years later , the daughter of an Anglican clergyman ; and Owen Barfield a London solicitor who shared with his friends a passion for all things lexical , and above all for the etymology of words . |
| 28 | The presidential guard had been removed from KGB authority , and government communications transferred to the aegis of a State Committee , and there was a proposal to remove the border guards from KGB control . |
| 29 | The city mob took Edward 's flight as the signal for an orgy of destruction in which the unpopular Treasurer , the Bishop of Exeter , was lynched and the tablet commemorating the Ordinances which had been removed from St Paul 's on the king 's orders in 1322 was replaced . |
| 30 | Even Jews who had been released from concentration camps on strict condition that they left the Fatherland immediately were obliged to pay for the round trip . |