Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 27 Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi announced that as a result of the agreement reached between de Klerk and Mandela , his predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party had withdrawn from constitutional talks . |
| 2 | Both vessels had withdrawn from Colombian territorial waters by Jan. 9 and the incident did not prevent a meeting taking place between representatives from Colombia , Peru and Bolivia on Jan. 10 in Santa Cruz , Bolivia , for the purpose of preparing the ground for the international drug summit ( which Bush was expected to attend ) scheduled to begin in the Colombian city of Cartagena on Feb 15 . |
| 3 | Fr Antony S Kirupakaran , the Director of Santhome Communications Centre and a member of WACC , welcomed film and television professionals who had gathered from different parts of India to attend the festival . |
| 4 | Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry . |
| 5 | The order of service in the Primers had developed from monastic devotions , added to the main office from the eighth century onwards , to remember the dead ( the office of the dead ) , and to celebrate understanding of the role of the Virgin Mary in the working of the faith — the Hours of the Virgin . |
| 6 | He had heard from other prisoners ( he told Beltrami ) that a man called Ian Waddell had been boasting that he had taken part in the Ayr crime , and then , on a quite different charge , Waddell was sent to Barlinnie himself . |
| 7 | Some of her ideas about sex and marriage seemed old-fashioned compared with various loudly expressed opinions she had heard from other nurses , and her steps towards the lighter side of life were still very tentative , as Deana 's blunt accusations last week had shown her . |
| 8 | It does n't matter what you state , cos we had heard from other pe , I 've been doing this , I 've been up here last weekend cos I am so angry about all this ! |
| 9 | The reasoning offered by the court centred on the fact that such persons had special access to inside information which arose from communications they had received from primary insiders . |
| 10 | In that connection , I should like to quote from a letter that the Secretary of State wrote to the right hon. Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) who was concerned — rightly so — about a letter that a tenant in his constituency had received from Grand Metropolitan Estates . |
| 11 | Giving a brief resumé of the year he paid tribute to the help the parish council had received from retired members . |
| 12 | The Scottish National Party Euro-MP for the Highlands and Islands , Winnie Ewing , wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland , detailing some of the correspondence she had received from worried parents . |
| 13 | Mr Lilley said the message he had received from local businessmen was that the economic recovery was well underway . |
| 14 | Guests had travelled from far and near to be there — former P&O/BI maintenance superintendent , John Line , had come all the way from Australia . |
| 15 | There was none of this nonsense when The Granada 500 , a group of Gallup-picked electors who had travelled from marginal Bolton to reach London 's Grosvenor House Hotel on Monday for World in Action ( ITV ) . |
| 16 | Indeed the aim of the work was to demonstrate how far he had fallen from ancestral glories , in order that his successors might rectify his errors . |
| 17 | Added sugar was the prime cause and levels of tooth decay , which had fallen from bad to mediocre , could not fall further until people , and especially children , cut back more on sugar , he said . |
| 18 | Jack Millar himself recalled a few stories of his experiences as a salesman , much to the amusement of all present , including his family who had come from far and wide to be there . |
| 19 | More seriously , he thought that it was probably a corrupt version of some such name as Krankovitz or Krankovsky , indicating that one branch of the family had come from eastern Europe . |
| 20 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
| 21 | A defence lawyer said both defendants had come from broken homes and had been brought up by their mothers . |
| 22 | The initial legal advice had come from Foreign Office lawyers . |
| 23 | The initial legal advice had come from Foreign Office lawyers but the contrary advice came from Sir Nicholas . |
| 24 | The vehicles had come from diverse locations such as stately homes , shooting estates , garages , scrap yards and castles . |
| 25 | A number had come from scientific backgrounds , fathers ( usually ) were nuclear physicists , engineers , doctors or maths lecturers , and often provided an impetus to study science through discussion of it at home or through help with homework . |
| 26 | No , we had a cheque which we presumed had come from Social Services |
| 27 | We sent a message of solidarity to the 250 women on board the ship , who had come from different parts of the world including the Arab Region . |
| 28 | One feels that Nyerere was specifically addressing educated people like himself , who had come from different backgrounds , absorbed European culture and manners , discovered a common nationalist cause and gone through a political campaign successfully together , yet still knew relatively little about one another 's cultural traditions . |
| 29 | On the infrastructural side , most of the investment had come from Urban Programme and derelict-land grant sources . |
| 30 | Initial funding had come from local businessmen and delegates — mostly businessmen themselves — from a dozen countries had paid their own air fares and hotel bills . |