Example sentences of "had [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is despite the fact that according to the law report the police officers did not know to which specific pits the pickets were travelling and that some of the evidence of violence on which the police officers relied was that which they had gathered from press and television reports . |
| 2 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 3 | She had stopped to help someone who had fainted from hunger in the street . |
| 4 | Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs . |
| 5 | Fund raising was underway , in the capable hands of TMAM Chairman Jimmy Beedle , who had flown from Tangmere with 43 Squadron in 1940 , was the author of the superb book The Fighting Cocks and Secretary of the 43 Squadron Association . |
| 6 | The members of the Commission on Social Justice , who had flown from south-east England in airline comfort yesterday morning and now were seated on hard chairs in the decrepit surroundings of the Salvation Army hall , nodded amiably . |
| 7 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Eva had heard from Dad what a poet among builders Ted was . |
| 10 | Does the Secretary of State recall that although he gave an account of meetings with the Japanese , the question asked specifically what representations he had received from business men ? |
| 11 | Nagy had already been prime minister from 1953 to 1955 but had fallen from favour and Rákosi returned to power . |
| 12 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 13 | But if Mrs Longhill felt better that her servant had fallen from grace in distant Barnswick , then let her think it . |
| 14 | DOWN'N OUT POOR Mark Hughes slips up as he tries a shot in Moscow — and soon he had fallen from grace completely . |
| 15 | Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace . |
| 16 | And this in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the ‘ excellent ’ companies analysed had fallen from grace by 1987 , when Peters himself brazenly opened his third book , Thriving on Chaos , with the statement : ‘ There are no excellent companies ’ . |
| 17 | The Society prospered , although at its 1852 annual public tea it could hardly hold a Christmas cheese and wine party members were saddened by the numbers that had fallen from grace once the hay and corn harvests had been collected . |
| 18 | He heard the cry and looked back , seeing how the blood had drained from Ling 's face , then let the body fall from him . |
| 19 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 20 | The benefits that had accrued from training were many and varied and were , perhaps , the best advertisement for the Board 's work . |
| 21 | One of the galleys had vanished from sight . |
| 22 | When he had vanished from sight she expelled a long sigh and allowed the mask to slip away from her face , slowing returning to her towel and lying down flat on it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 25 | Of all the things she had expected from life , the events of the last twenty-four hours had not been remotely near them . |
| 26 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 27 | I fell asleep on the Circle Line and had to retrack from South Kensington to Victoria , curled up in a corner seat in the warm tube . |
| 28 | Eventually , with much scrabbling , he was over , and had dropped from sight . |
| 29 | Indeed , a painter-critic named Lecomte had resigned from membership of the Salon because he felt the Cubists were too numerous and their work too well hung . |
| 30 | The millions he had earned from Formula One added to the money he must be making now meant he could provide Thomas with cast-iron financial security , an exceedingly comfortable home and a first-class education . |