Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Egyptian police claimed that false identity papers had been discovered and that Misrati had jumped from a balcony in a bid to escape , breaking a leg in the process . |
| 2 | Two armed men had jumped from a car as the money was being carried towards the bank . |
| 3 | This had developed from a side-interest of the original Weetman Pearson ( Lord Cowdray ) , a civil engineer and Liberal activist before and after the First World War . |
| 4 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 5 | During the trial the court had heard from a succession of alleged victims , all now adults , who claimed they had been ill-treated by the Hanbys . |
| 6 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |
| 7 | Furnas insisted that the most recent stoppage was for routine maintenance until Greenpeace made public information about the incident that it had received from a worker at the plant , later confirmed by the Brazilian nuclear energy commission . |
| 8 | The fifth client whose outcome was not adopted was a man who was dissatisfied with the service he had received from a computer dating service . |
| 9 | The major achievement that could be claimed by March 1983 — a notable one indeed — was that inflation had fallen from a peak of 22 per cent in early 1980 to a mere 5 per cent . |
| 10 | Inflation had fallen from a high of 15.7 per cent in 1987 to 4.9 per cent at end-1990 , but at the cost of falling output and a sharp rise in unemployment . |
| 11 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |
| 12 | The mist had lifted from a countryside now hard and black under an iron frost . |
| 13 | It was reported that Cuban resales of Soviet oil , an important source of foreign currency , had dropped from a peak of almost US$600,000,000 in 1985 to US$180,000,000 in 1989 . |
| 14 | The reshuffle featured the return to the Cabinet of Jean-Marie Soisson , who had resigned from a Cabinet post in March after being elected President of the Regional Council for Burgundy [ see p. 38821 ] . |
| 15 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 16 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 17 | Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish . |
| 18 | His strong , even teeth glinted white against the bronze of his skin , and with a peculiar detachment Shannon found herself wondering if the tan had come from a sun-bed or even a bottle . |
| 19 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 20 | On arriving at Luxeuil amid the wild beauty of the Vosges mountains , the volunteers who had come from a year in the trenches with the Legion or from the spartan discomfort of the Ambulance Service , thought that life was almost too good to be true . |
| 21 | On Aug. 13 three soldiers and four guerrillas were killed when 50 members of a Hutu opposition group , who had come from a refugee camp in Tanzania , attacked an army barracks at Madamba in the south of the country . |
| 22 | Vlok said that the money had come from a fund established to combat international sanctions . |
| 23 | Rita confessed her frock had come from a Beverly Hills shop which was so snooty the assistant asked her if she had an appointment : ‘ I asked , ‘ Why , do the dresses have something else to do ? ’ ’ |
| 24 | His instructions had come from a book by Seve Ballesteros called Natural Golf . |
| 25 | They never thought for a moment about reverting to conventional agriculture , although Gareth had come from a research job with ICI . |
| 26 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 27 | It had come from a chateau outside Paris , as had some of the other beauties . |
| 28 | To everyone 's surprise , Aenarion took another wife , the strange , mysterious and beautiful seeress Morathi whom he had rescued from a band of Slaanesh worshippers . |
| 29 | The NRF had originated from a combination of Swedish Red-and-Whites crossed to Ayrshires ( imported since the 1860s ) , and by 1960 it had absorbed the graded-up Red Trondheim ( a horned breed from Ayrshires crossed to local cattle between 1850 and 1891 ) and the Hedmark , another local type of the Swedish Red-and-White . |
| 30 | He reminded her of his father , who had suffered from a lung disease . |