Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [noun prp] [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war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain .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 | He had parted from Felicity on good terms after breakfast ; she had returned to continue her courses . |
| 3 | Fiona Reekie , 13 , and her mother Eileen had travelled from Fife to London to see Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 4 | The two women had travelled from Durban to the holiday resort at Sordwana near South Africa 's border with Mozambique on Friday . |
| 5 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 6 | Ronald Taylor , who had travelled from Winsford to his daughter 's house at Middlewich Road , Rudheath , said he was affected by the smell . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two other men had travelled from Glasgow in order to be close by when the great event happened . |
| 9 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The second item had come from Fischer in Alexandria . |
| 12 | It had come from America in a parcel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Arnhem veteran had come from Salisbury for a memorial service . |
| 17 | For she had actually been engaged in the very pleasant task of deciding which room in her new house at Far Flatley might best be converted into a nursery when a messenger had come from Frizingley with the awful news . |
| 18 | The railway had come from Belfast in 1842 , the original station having been at Seagoe and some will still recall the old sidings which used to be near the signal-box there . |
| 19 | The immediate choice of king by those Northumbrians responsible for the murder of Aethelred was the ‘ patrician ’ , Osbald , but others recalled Eardwulf , son of Eardwulf , from exile and after only twenty-seven days the royal household and nobles deserted Osbald and he was forced to flee , sailing from Lindisfarne to the kingdom of the Picts as Alhred had done from Bamburgh before him . |
| 20 | On 18th , January 1912 , Captain Robert Falcon Scott , and his colleagues , reached the South Pole to find that Amundsen had reached there before them , and the whole party perished in appalling weather on their return journey to their ship Terra Nova , in which they had sailed from England in 1910 . |
| 21 | Only five of the men who had sailed from Bristol with the Hispaniola returned with her . |
| 22 | He entered the profession after an apprenticeship at the Jesuit college he attended in Sheffield , where his father , a salesman in steel , had moved from London with his young son . |
| 23 | All the families involved had moved from England to Orkney for a variety of reasons . |
| 24 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 25 | Several knights came to Ayrshire , one being Walter Fitzallan , whose father had moved from Normandy to England with William the Conqueror and had fought at the Battle of Hastings . |
| 26 | He died 16 November 1915 at his home in New Cross , south London , to which he had moved from Whitechapel in 1901 , and he was buried in Nunhead cemetery . |
| 27 | This was not accidental ; Loeb had moved from Germany to Chicago , where he influenced the young J. B. Watson , who was just starting his research career . |
| 28 | Mr Jim Henderson , born in County Fermanagh , then in business in Dungannon , had moved from Moy to Portadown when he started a business in Portadown . |
| 29 | Rosa had moved from Tucupita to be with her daughter Alicia after the death of Juan 's father in a riding accident . |
| 30 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |