Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the consul and ambassador had failed to help him , he felt entitled to reparation from the British government . |
| 2 | In making his decision , he said , he had consulted with representatives from " Jordan , Yemen , Palestine , Sudan and the Arab Maghreb " and had been " encouraged " by " the decision of the Democratic Party in the US Senate and the European Parliament 's invitation to our Foreign Minister for dialogue " . |
| 3 | Nate Cocello , President of United Motors , had flown into London from Detroit with a posse of Vice Presidents to attend the bi-monthly meeting of the European Planning committee . |
| 4 | Crippled with arthritis and wheelchair-bound , at 77 Renoir detested meeting strangers but he had heard about Modigliani from Osterlind and , almost certainly , from Zborowski and agreed to the visit . |
| 5 | She had heard about Greg from her mother-in-law , and had conceived various lively suspicions . |
| 6 | They , by contrast , did not have to return the money they had received in compensation from the Republic . |
| 7 | My father and mother had travelled by train from Jibuti , on the coast of French Somaliland , to Dire Dawa , the railhead in Abyssinia . |
| 8 | On arrival at the Salters ' Hall the guests , many of whom had travelled by bus from Shropshire especially for the occasion , were greeted by Sir Peter and Lady Gadsden and Mr and Mrs Alan Henn before everyone went in to dinner . |
| 9 | Conversely , privately rented dwellings had fallen in proportion from 44.6 per cent at the former date to 16 per cent in 1975 . |
| 10 | Bob , who had sat in silence from the beginning of the journey , crushed between Gareth Holmroyd and Laurence Evenden in the back sighed meditatively . |
| 11 | Walking away from Dudley — with the feeling that once again she was deserting her grandfather — she thought back to the moment on last New Year 's Day when she had looked down Nordale from her bedroom window , all eagerness for what 1848 would bring . |
| 12 | It was announced on Nov. 6 that former Prime Minister Col. Kasdi Merbah , who had resigned in October from the central committee of the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) [ see p. 37795 ] , had formed the Algerian Movement for Justice and Development . |
| 13 | The Algerian Movement for Justice and Development was formed in November 1990 by a former Prime Minister , Col. Kasdi Merbah , who had resigned in October from the central committee of the FLN . |
| 14 | Both men had come to Whitely from other prisons , Robinson from Strangeways . |
| 15 | His celebration after Ronnie Whelan had scored a simple equaliser was the perfect demonstration of how close his Liverpool team had come to elimination from the FA Cup . |
| 16 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 17 | She had come to England from Berlin in the 1930s and had begun her studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 18 | Whilst he remained at Allen Street he had a bedroom in the basement , Minton occupying the middle floors and the flat at the top of the house being let to Paul Danquah , the son of a Gold Coast politician who had come to England from Ghana to study law and had had an affair with a Lyons Corner House waitress , Paul 's mother . |
| 19 | Nickie , aged eighteen , lived with her parents , who had come to Britain from the West Indies in the 195Os , until she was sixteen . |
| 20 | John Müeller had come to London from Nürnberg , had changed his name to Miller and settled down to work in close collaboration with Philip Miller at Chelsea . |
| 21 | A large number of men and women had come to Iraq from all over the world to build a ‘ human wall ’ between the armies on the Iraqi-Saudi border . |
| 22 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
| 23 | In recent weeks Bakatin had come under criticism from senior military and KGB officers for his perceived failure to tackle the current crime wave , and for suggesting decentralization of control of limited contingents of Interior Ministry troops to republican governments . |
| 24 | With regard to liturgy , these canons demanded the retention of a number of procedures which had come under attack from Puritans , such as the use of the surplice , kneeling to receive communion , and the inclusion of the sign of the cross and godparents in the baptism ceremony . |
| 25 | Since the revolution he had come under attack from laity and junior clergy , while Culture Minister Andrei Plesu condemned his church 's failure to provide a basis for an organized opposition movement to Ceausescu . |
| 26 | Bases of the 14th Army had come under attack from civilians looking for weapons , and initial assurances that the Army would remain neutral were followed by a statement issued on March 17 that , should war in the region become a reality , the Army would act to defend itself . |
| 27 | All had come under pressure from constituents , Tory officials and MPs . |
| 28 | In recent months Roman 's leadership had come under pressure from " old-guard " NSF members including President Ion Iliescu . |
| 29 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 30 | Allied aircraft had come under fire from the island — little more than an uninhabited rock supporting a navigational beacon — whilst they were attacking two Iraqi naval vessels on Jan. 22 . |