Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had stopped to help someone who had fainted from hunger in the street . |
| 2 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The ICRC estimated that in the town of Iscia Baidoa , 220 km north-west of Mogadishu , 7,000 of the town 's 40,000 people had died from starvation in recent months . |
| 5 | In May 1989 the Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that 171 prisoners had died from torture in police custody between 1980 and 1986 . |
| 6 | Muldoon had retired from politics in 1991 and became a popular talk-show host with an Auckland radio station . |
| 7 | Although this represented a success for the government , it made more unlikely any early surrender by cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria , who had escaped from prison in July [ see p. 39001 ] . |
| 8 | Lafontant , a former Interior Minister and notorious Duvalierist leader , had returned from exile in July 1990 , since when the military had repeatedly refused to act on a warrant for his arrest . |
| 9 | Shen had returned from exile in the USA in early August , the first prominent student leader to do so . |
| 10 | Shen had returned from exile in the USA in August and had been arrested on Sept. 1 as he planned to launch a Beijing office of the US-based Democracy for China Fund [ see p. 39095 ] . |