Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had dismissed her from his mind as he would swat away a troublesome fly . |
| 2 | He had distanced himself from her . |
| 3 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 4 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 5 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 6 | She too , like Mercer , must have suffered for years from his boorish behaviour in public , and she had distanced herself from it . |
| 7 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 8 | Liz Matson had been very impressed at how much Laura had taught herself from books ; using cardboard patterns she could manage basic grading . |
| 9 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 10 | A woman , leaning lightly on an ebony and silver cane , was rising slowly from the depths of the high-backed chair that had hidden her from view . |
| 11 | More than that , he felt insulted that they had hidden it from him . |
| 12 | The constant upheaval of her life had parted her from any close friends and her own quiet , withdrawn manner kept most people at arm 's length . |
| 13 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 14 | Somewhat earlier , Sarah Fyge Egerton complained in poems , admittedly less violent , that her father had banished her from London for publishing ‘ The Female Advocate ’ . |
| 15 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 16 | During the shelling and mortaring I had heard nothing from Sid 's trench . |
| 17 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 18 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 19 | Seven weeks and five days since that cataclysmic day when Svend had interrupted their lovemaking , and she had heard nothing from him . |
| 20 | Having slept better that night , Fabia awakened on Tuesday and thought of Ven , thought of Cara and of Barney , and would dearly have liked to telephone her parents to find out if they had heard anything from her sister . |
| 21 | There is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the anecdote , which Kemalpasazade relates from an earlier , unidentified historian who had heard it from Mehmed II himself ; and it would seem to establish conclusively that Molla Yegan was still alive in 857/1453 . |
| 22 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 23 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 24 | She was more than capable of defending herself if the need arose , but what if her pursuer was someone who had recognized her from a previous UNACO assignment , someone out to blow her cover ? |
| 25 | He could not afford to antagonize Anselm , but — with motives very similar to those which led Anselm to maintain the rights of his see as he had received them from his predecessors — he had no intention of abandoning any rights enjoyed by his father and brother . |
| 26 | Jarvis 's train set , the one which had diverted him from his mother 's grief on the day her father hanged himself , was laid out on the floor in Lower Six , a classroom on the top floor , and Jarvis had told Jasper he could play with it whenever he liked . |
| 27 | Contrary to Cissie 's opinion , she herself was glad that David had stopped her from opening her heart to this impressionable young girl . |
| 28 | Then he read a textbook of hers about the craft of the dramatist and it had stopped him from showing her anything for a year . |
| 29 | Often , he had to hide the marks Gina had given him from his pupils . |
| 30 | On the next floor , he found a toilet , slipped in and lit a cigarette , then took the envelope Himmler had given him from his pocket and opened it . |