Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had stopped to help someone who had fainted from hunger in the street . |
| 2 | Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 5 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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) ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This explained why the sounds of battle had come from east of this dell . |
| 12 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 13 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 14 | A CLERGYMAN found hanging in his garage had suffered from depression for several years , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 15 | The girl had suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs , but it was agreed that although that would ‘ probably at no very distant period have terminated fatally ’ the immediate cause of death was in the stomach . |
| 16 | The Austrian government on Feb. 14 , 1990 , concluded various agreements with Jewish organizations for the payment of nearly US$200 million in benefits to Austrian Jews who had suffered from persecution after the country 's forcible union with Nazi Germany in 1938 [ see also p. 37688 ] . |
| 17 | He was sixty-eight years old and had suffered from cancer of the oesophagus for some time . |
| 18 | CASE STUDY : JENNY Jenny , 20 , was a student who had suffered from bulimia for three years . |
| 19 | She loved to move her money around , a process which had suffered from acceleration since the stock market collapse of the autumn of 1987 . |
| 20 | As for Uncle , he had suffered from rheumatism for as long as I can remember , so , all-in-all , we always had more work than we could really cope with . |
| 21 | In the month since the decision had been taken that she would come to school here , her feelings had turned from foreboding to anticipation . |
| 22 | The best portrait of Chaucer was one he had made from life for his patron 's copy of the Regiment of Princes , where it accompanied Hoccleve 's praise of his master . |
| 23 | In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia . |
| 24 | By the end of the study there were no differences between the groups in the means of the last recorded random plasma glucose and glycated haemoglobin concentrations , though mean random plasma glucose values had risen from baseline by 1.3 mmol/l and 1.6 mmol/l in control and prompted groups respectively ( table VI ) . |
| 25 | Bombed out of one small premises , Grandpa had moved from factory to factory , finally ending up in what was now Belmodes . |
| 26 | Flaubert was emblematic of a further development in modernization , in which the referent of the work of art , having evolved from the timeless and ideal to the contingent , now had moved from contingency to virtual insignificance . |
| 27 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 28 | The Guardian of May 13 reported that the country 's health directorate had confirmed that 951 people had died from diarrhoea in the previous two weeks , mostly in cyclone-affected areas . |
| 29 | On Feb. 3 the government stated that 31,033 children had died from lack of medicines and food as a result of UN sanctions [ see also p. 38742 ] . |
| 30 | Dr Ceri Williams , consultant pathologist at the hospital , said Mr Prattley had died from fibrosis of the lungs . |