Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Mayfest is about people , ’ he said , by way of explaining why a picture of man in a dinner jacket spouting out the letters MAYFEST had been chosen from a wide selection of designs submitted by eight agencies . |
| 32 | The mercury had been discharged from a local chemical plant . |
| 33 | Two coats had been stolen from a car at the back of Cross Street , but the thief was later arrested and cleared of the Oliver case . |
| 34 | ONE of the guns found in West Belfast recently had been stolen from a police inspector in 1988 . |
| 35 | He admitted handling over four hundred pounds which had been stolen from a post office in Reading . |
| 36 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 37 | The key symbol of European life , the nation , had been transformed from a dynastic culture-creating unit to a liberal democratic rationalist state . |
| 38 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 39 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 40 | Lost on their way , they had been rescued from a Chaos attack by the Treeman Oakheart and his people . |
| 41 | Meanwhile his Countess had been rescued from a Liddesdale cottage ‘ not to be compared to any dog kennel in England ’ by the chivalrous Kerr of Ferniehirst , in spite of past feuds with her husband 's family . |
| 42 | Subsequently another volume of poems , several notebooks , and a book of liturgical devotions were discovered ; in 1964 the discovery of a manuscript of Select Meditations was announced ; and in 1982 a large manuscript entitled Commentaries of Heaven , which had been rescued from a burning rubbish tip in south Lancashire about 1967 , was identified as Traherne 's . |
| 43 | ( S. ) 487 , where a young woman who had been raped took part in an attack on the man responsible , after he had been released from a sentence of 18 month 's imprisonment after serving six months . |
| 44 | A vidicon TV camera can provide an input to such systems , and the image from the TV camera is stored in a memory bank just as if it had been read from a disc file ( as would be the case with a remotely-sensed image ( Chapter 5 ) ) . |
| 45 | In one condition he showed them a series of objects which had been bought from a joke shop : a piece of rubber cheese , a chicken 's egg made of stone , and so forth . |
| 46 | The cake had been bought from a shop in Kensington , Liverpool , the city 's magistrates court was told . |
| 47 | It has been suggested that this was the first time a summer pavilion had been adapted from a Greek temple . |
| 48 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |