Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty .
2 Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service .
3 The Beatles had taken over from the Rolling Stones , but Gabriel , used to pop boiling over all around her , did not notice .
4 When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage .
5 Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’
6 Louis had come up from the saloon .
7 Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States .
8 Maybe she believed him , for Rufus had once caught her lifting the lid and looking into the jar at the wood ash Adam had scraped up from the site of the handkerchief man 's last bonfire .
9 The Hand of Gooch has taken over from the Hand of God Maradona 's — in sporting legend .
10 Norman had pointed out from the beginning that this financial package would not necessarily be sufficient to attract the highest quality executive , and warned the Government that they should be prepared to pay more .
11 Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else .
12 On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping .
13 Eighty-one refugee children went to Bunce Court , the school Anna Essinger had brought over from the Schwäbische Alb mountains of the Danube to Otterden , a large manor house standing in twenty-five acres of Kent countryside .
14 Near Paderborn in Westphalia in the small town of Wewelsburg was the castle of that name which Heinrich Himmler had taken over from the local council in 1934 .
15 When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer .
16 On the real occasion , Comfort had arrived back from the river and had stood in front of them both , her blonde hair a mass of tangled curls , each curl spangled with water .
17 They polished off most of the sausages , which they seemed greatly to enjoy , and Bith of the Bog-Hat and Flaherty shared a firkin of the giants ' ale , which Balor had brought up from the cellars .
18 Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive .
19 Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive .
20 The last aircraft to leave RAF Abingdon in Oxfordshire have flown out from the base .
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