Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Qulis — who were met by police at Heathrow — had flown back from Dublin after collecting Farrah from Limerick . |
| 2 | Instead , he drove away in the , ran over a kerb , got a flat tyre and kept going — to pick up Vicky Vanderford , whom he had flown in from California . |
| 3 | The one on the right had flown in from Finland . |
| 4 | Bernadette 's tearful sister Rosie , who had flown in from Germany , said : ‘ All the relatives are giving Farrah lots of hugs and kisses . |
| 5 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 6 | Ms Toynbee said Schmit had flown in from Zurich earlier that morning and was waiting to travel on another Wardair flight to Vancouver . |
| 7 | Mr Birt said yesterday he had been ‘ enormously heartened ’ by the strong support he had received in from colleagues at the BBC . |
| 8 | ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham . |
| 9 | Neighbours had travelled down from Gloucestershire to join in the celebration : |
| 10 | They were soon joined by Duncan Curr , member of Dublin Street Baptist Church and Chairman of Christian Aid/CEEC , who had bicycled in from Juniper Green – and eventually , ny me . |
| 11 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 12 | The Scots had come over from Ireland and colonised most of Galloway , Kintyre and Arran . |
| 13 | The task of of carving through the English countryside was carried out by unskilled navvies , many of whom had come over from Ireland to earn a living . |
| 14 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 15 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 16 | The Kleibers had come over from Germany some years before the war , and settled in Poplar . |
| 17 | Our older son had come over from San Francisco with his wife and the three children , so they were all here . |
| 18 | On 5 June one of two Iranian F-4s that had come over from Bushehr , looking for another kill off the Saudi coast , was shot down by the Saudis ' more advanced F-15s , armed with the Raytheon Sparrow missile and guided on to their targets by AWACS surveillance craft . |
| 19 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 20 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 21 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 22 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 23 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 24 | You , th cos the railway men used to make the path , cos the terrific amount of railway men used to work down at and most of our round consisted of railway people and most of them had come up from Wales and places like that . |
| 25 | And a few seconds ago an urgent message had come through from GCHQ at Cheltenham . |
| 26 | Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way . |
| 27 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |
| 28 | She had come in from work one evening to find her mother and father dead in each other 's arms . |
| 29 | The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship . |
| 30 | On the eve of her sailing , she learned from a spokeswoman of the Queen 's that news had come in from Cyprus : that Diniz Vasquez her husband 's young kinsman was trapped in Famagusta . |