Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 2 | The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague . |
| 3 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 4 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 5 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 6 | I slipped into the great four-poster bed , whispered a few French endearments I had learnt from a wench and set to with a will . |
| 7 | " I 've come from a bit farther than Chelsea tonight , " |
| 8 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 9 | I 've come from a village background actually , and homelessness was n't a major problem in our villages because a lot of these sorts of characters somehow were adopted by the community . |
| 10 | The authors he found most helpful in this ‘ interim ’ period were all mystics , or figures who emphasized spirit over matter — MacDonald , William Ralph Inge , Jacob Boehme , whose quasi-theosophical , semi-astrological De Signatura Rerum ( The Signatures of Things ) gave him ‘ about the biggest shaking up I 've got from a book , since I first read Phantastes ’ . |
| 11 | I have selected from a wealth of alternatives : |
| 12 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 13 | The one thing I have bought from a tin of biscuits . |
| 14 | Mr Appleby said : ‘ This is a long-established business with a reputation for quality workmanship which has suffered from a series of bad debts and disputed accounts . ’ |
| 15 | This must not be dismissed as mere metaphor since it could also be true of the reader , for whom a health check might reveal their having suffered from a range of complaints in blissful ignorance . |
| 16 | As a result in part of these factors , and also of firm demand , spot petroleum prices on the world market as characterized by the marker ( North Sea ) Brent crude , which had risen from a low of about dollars 12 in September 1988 ( see p. 36573 ) to dollars 16-dollars 17 around the turn of 1988-89 ( see p. 36411 ) and to over dollars 18 by mid-March 1989 ( see p. 36573 ) , increased further to over dollars 21 by mid-April . |
| 17 | As he got closer he saw that there was a series of red drops with the characteristic trailing pear shape as of blood which had dripped from a wound . |
| 18 | The current account surplus in 1985 was more than entirely accounted for by oil , which had improved from a deficit of about £700m in 1979 to a surplus of £8bn in 1985 . |
| 19 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 20 | But top scorer John Taylor , who has shown disappointing form recently , could make way for Marcus Browning , who has returned from a loan spell with Hereford after scoring six goals in five games . |
| 21 | The Tyneside star , who has recovered from a groin injury , admitted afterwards : ‘ The Olympic Games seem a long way away . |
| 22 | The manager 's hand has been strengthened by the return of striker Steve McManaman , who has recovered from a back injury , and Dane Torben Piechnik , who was on World Cup duty in midweek . |
| 23 | He is replaced by Paul Weston , who has recovered from a neck injury , in the only change from the side which beat Sunderland 46–0 last week . |
| 24 | The 16-year-old English Schools champion , who has recovered from a knee injury , is gradually getting back to her best form and her target is beating her own British record of 42.9 secs recorded at Crystal Palace last season . |
| 25 | A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time , as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness . |
| 26 | She has recovered from a chest infection which affected her last week after two solid days of filming left her exhausted . |
| 27 | She 'd died from a blow to her neck . |
| 28 | So I walked up to her , looked into her eyes , and close to she was as beautiful and warm as she 'd seemed from a distance . |
| 29 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |
| 30 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |