Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The members of the Commission on Social Justice , who had flown from south-east England in airline comfort yesterday morning and now were seated on hard chairs in the decrepit surroundings of the Salvation Army hall , nodded amiably . |
| 2 | I suggested that , in any case , it might be wise to postpone going away until we had heard from M. Chaillot regarding the ‘ Chansons de Mani ’ . |
| 3 | Does the Secretary of State recall that although he gave an account of meetings with the Japanese , the question asked specifically what representations he had received from business men ? |
| 4 | The birds had vanished from Tram Chim ( meaning bird swamp ) when their habitat was destroyed in the early years of the war , and restoration of the wetland reserve is one of Vo Quy 's highest environmental priorities . |
| 5 | I discovered he had come from South America . |
| 6 | The challenge had come from Justice Department lawyers with top secret security clearances and from civilian Army drug counsellors . |
| 7 | The previous transplants had come from accident victims and were rejected within days . |
| 8 | She was an English woman , now widowed , whose husband had come from County Galway . |
| 9 | Pressure for his removal had come from trade unions ; Pérez had made 3,000 workers redundant and had failed to improve on the three to four hours of electricity the country received daily . |
| 10 | She had suffered from anorexia nervosa since the age of 19 . |
| 11 | After almost two hours at the wheel yesterday , Senna limped away from his car , the only obvious sign that he had suffered from brake trouble during the last quarter of the 73-lap race . |
| 12 | Llandudno councillor Arthur Todd said people at Penmaenmawr had suffered from traffic noise and dust during the building of the A55 bypass of the town and the works at the Pen-y-clip tunnel . |
| 13 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 14 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 15 | The approach of the mid-term Congressional elections in November 1946 , and the evidence from the public opinion polls that the American people had moved from wartime admiration of Russia to a grave suspicion of Soviet aims , were further pressures on Truman to take a tougher line . |
| 16 | The joke was , as he knew from the records , that one of two of the most successful criminous families had moved from council flats into the new apartments on the proceeds of a life of profitable wrongdoing . |
| 17 | Mr Leach had told the court that Curtis had been a staunch supporter of the anti-smoking campaign and that his father had died from lung cancer . |
| 18 | An hour after the seven-year-old bitch 's death a veterinary surgeon found its body temperature was 109.2 degrees and it had died from heart failure caused by heat stress , Birmingham magistrates were told . |
| 19 | He said post mortems showed Mrs Garvey had died from head injuries , including multiple fractures to the skull . |
| 20 | Both parents , his brother , and several other relatives drank very heavily , and an uncle had died from liver cirrhosis . |
| 21 | Eventually the Fire Service put the fire out , but by then both women had died from smoke inhalation . |
| 22 | Malcolm Kincaid had died from potassium cyanide . |
| 23 | Surgeons operated on a 22-year-old American male who had died from gunshot wounds . |
| 24 | Home Office pathologist Dr Alan Williams said Andrew had died from ecstasy poisoning and that blood samples taken from his body had revealed a massive amount of the drug . |
| 25 | The inquest was told that Mr Jeffrey , who was from Stroud , had died from carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 26 | The non-church-goers in the community proved hard to win , and those who had lapsed from church attendance some twenty years previously saw no need to reconsider at their time of life . |
| 27 | In 1932 he edited Escapers All , derived from a series of talks given by men who had escaped from prisoner-of-war camps . |
| 28 | Golkar , presenting itself as the guarantor of stability and economic growth , was backed by the country 's 4,000,000 civil servants and by the business community , and also polled strongly in rural areas , especially in those regions which had benefited from government development programmes . |
| 29 | Some schools had benefited from government funds allocated to implementing the national curriculum , with one reporting a grant of £20,000 over three years . |
| 30 | She could only hope that when he had recovered from jet lag he would have second thoughts and leave Garry to go his own way . |