Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various Lives had been written from a variety of standpoints , but he observed that the best of them had been inspired with hate — hate , not of Jesus , but of the ‘ Christ of dogma ’ . |
| 2 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
| 3 | He challenged the validity of a search warrant which had been obtained from a sheriff , alleging that statements by inquiry officers about a flickering light being seen at a bedroom window were a blatant and malicious fabrication . |
| 4 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 5 | The final story had been cut from a newspaper gossip column in 1973 . |
| 6 | Last week , in contrast , a Florida jury cleared a vagrant accused of the rape of a 22-year-old woman who had been snatched from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant car park while wearing a white mini-skirt and , so the jury was informed , no underwear . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State , Dean Acheson , warned the American mission in Seoul on 13 April 1949 that information had been received from a source believed to be reliable to the effect that serious trouble might arise in Korea within two months and that the initiative in these developments would be taken by South Korea . |
| 8 | It shows that the total cost was to be 11650 and that a Grant of £300 had been received from a private Debt Extinction Fund subscribed by a few individuals to assist poor congregations . |
| 9 | Hilda Lodge , in her new capacity of Chairman , welcomed everyone and said that apologies had been received from a number of teachers which had resulted in a smaller than usual attendance . |
| 10 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 11 | Mr Alan Rawley QC , for Mother Catherine , 82 , the Mother Superior of the monastery , said that evidence supplied by the Ministry yesterday morning revealed that salmonella typhimurium had been isolated from a ‘ bulked up ’ sample of the intestines of five of the chickens . |
| 12 | Boxes and boxes of very expensive camera equipment and food supplies had been unloaded from a large helicopter in quiet astonishment by the Norwegian crew before they had abandoned us in a flurry of gravel . |
| 13 | They had been selected from a pile of ‘ sets ’ which the Second Son had gleaned from the finest merchants in Abu Dhabi and brought to the Sheikha . |
| 14 | The celebrity was a monosyllabic professional footballer who had been transferred from a Scottish club to a fashionable one in London . |
| 15 | During his visit he presented a formal protest that the former East German leader Erich Honecker , 78 , and his wife Margot Honecker had been transferred from a Soviet military hospital outside Berlin to Moscow " for medical reasons " . |
| 16 | He also pointed out that under item 25 Appointment of Auditors , a quotation at a much lower figure had been accepted from a new firm of Auditors . |
| 17 | By 1973 a plan had been created from a basic structure set up with the aid of a ‘ systems management specialist ’ . |
| 18 | A year later , in October 1980 , after they had been dislodged from a public vigil in the main square of San Salvador , they occupied the offices of the Ministry of Justice . |
| 19 | At another site , in Caithness , use of the scanning electron microscope combined with an autoradiographic technique has helped to define the way in which soluble uranium had been translocated from a sandstone bedrock into the overlying regolith/soil . |
| 20 | Outside the cottage door was a huge , ominous-looking shell which we were told had been fired from a battleship during World War I ; and John pointed out to us exactly where the Royal Oak had been torpedoed in 1939 . |
| 21 | He had been lifted from a detention cell and given the job of English teacher because the Colonel liked a boy who could smile into the face of an interrogator who wielded a rubber truncheon . |
| 22 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 23 | Roy , the gunman from Rhodesia , had a suede jacket with tassels on the back and sleeves , and a pair of boots which he swore had been taken from a dead terrorist . |
| 24 | The car had been taken from a carpark in Oxford shortly before the crash on the Woodstock Road . |
| 25 | But , minutes later , when the trio had left , the 89-year-old discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom of her terraced home in Albany Road , Prescot . |
| 26 | But minutes later , when the trio had left , the 89 year old lady discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom of her terraced home in Albany Road , Prescot . |
| 27 | But minutes after the trio left , the 89-year-old woman discovered that her purse had been taken from a bedroom . |
| 28 | One collection of child pornography had been taken from a headmaster . |
| 29 | Each competitor was to speak for approximately four minutes on a topic that had been chosen from a master list selected by the steering group . |
| 30 | As in every case the recalcitrant MPs had been chosen from a list of several hundred aspirants by the very persons now so aggrieved , Patten was not inclined to give much weight to their judgement . |