Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The challenge had come from Justice Department lawyers with top secret security clearances and from civilian Army drug counsellors . |
| 4 | She had suffered from anorexia nervosa since the age of 19 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Both parents , his brother , and several other relatives drank very heavily , and an uncle had died from liver cirrhosis . |
| 11 | Eventually the Fire Service put the fire out , but by then both women had died from smoke inhalation . |
| 12 | Malcolm Kincaid had died from potassium cyanide . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The inquest was told that Mr Jeffrey , who was from Stroud , had died from carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The agreement sought to break down Ford 's rigid bureaucratic system of categorizing semi-skilled production work and the craft demarcations it had inherited from craft unionism . |
| 19 | Two months later the Ashleys hired their most professionally qualified applicant to date in the retail sector , Liza Wanklyn , an American living in Paris , had graduated from design school and had worked for Jean Muir and Givenchy before applying to join ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 20 | In the process Kurt had graduated from business adviser to trusted friend ; Hugo had rewarded him with a fifteen per cent share of the business and never regretted it . |
| 21 | Hellen 's brother , Major Harold Semmens , had returned from war service in Europe looking as handsome and debonair as ever . |