Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Seville Junta behaved with criminal selfishness and , but for the moderation of its general , it might have declared war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 2 | She had stopped to help someone who had fainted from hunger in the street . |
| 3 | Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs . |
| 4 | He had parted from Felicity on good terms after breakfast ; she had returned to continue her courses . |
| 5 | Fund raising was underway , in the capable hands of TMAM Chairman Jimmy Beedle , who had flown from Tangmere with 43 Squadron in 1940 , was the author of the superb book The Fighting Cocks and Secretary of the 43 Squadron Association . |
| 6 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 7 | In the Romalpa case , not only was the seller entitled , as owner , to the unmixed goods which the buyer had not sold , but the seller was also entitled to the proceeds of the sale which the buyer had received from sub-sales of unmixed goods . |
| 8 | Fiona Reekie , 13 , and her mother Eileen had travelled from Fife to London to see Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 9 | The two women had travelled from Durban to the holiday resort at Sordwana near South Africa 's border with Mozambique on Friday . |
| 10 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 11 | Ronald Taylor , who had travelled from Winsford to his daughter 's house at Middlewich Road , Rudheath , said he was affected by the smell . |
| 12 | Dana had travelled from Berlin to Salamanca on an old motor bike that was to play a large part in our lives both in Spain and in England . |
| 13 | Two other men had travelled from Glasgow in order to be close by when the great event happened . |
| 14 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 15 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 16 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 17 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 18 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 19 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 20 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 21 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 22 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 23 | Indeed , a painter-critic named Lecomte had resigned from membership of the Salon because he felt the Cubists were too numerous and their work too well hung . |
| 24 | The second item had come from Fischer in Alexandria . |
| 25 | It had come from America in a parcel . |
| 26 | The most elaborate response for broad-ranging rationalisation had come from Britain in 1952 with the Eden Plan , but this had been a response to Britain 's anxiety about what the little Europe of the Six might achieve . |
| 27 | The last proposal for change had come from France on the grounds of weather being better later in the season but it was decided then to leave fixtures in their present slots from January-March . |
| 28 | Other teams in the 1993 contest had come from breweries including Whitbread , Fuller 's , Young 's and Courage and the event was held at Park Royal . |
| 29 | A request for a diary had come from friends of the broker whose daughter was due home from Arra in Zaire because of political troubles . |
| 30 | We do not know at what date Matilda had gone to Wilton , but probably she had come from Scotland as a young girl with her aunt Christina in 1086 to be educated at Wilton . |