Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 2 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 5 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 6 | I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’ |
| 7 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 8 | We 've deliberately stayed away from the official national trails in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 9 | I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot . |
| 10 | Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church . |
| 11 | Local people have already suffered appallingly from the dangers of the Cubatoa industrial park with its 23 major factories , attracted to the region by a government policy promising no pollution control . |
| 12 | This suggests that closures have not stemmed primarily from an objective of economic rationalization . |
| 13 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 14 | There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge . |
| 15 | The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band . |
| 16 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 17 | I have also learnt much from the skills of others : without Chris Whitaker and Tess Lomax we might not have succeeded in improving the way we organise community care . |
| 18 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 19 | Well they have n't come back from the shop yet . |
| 20 | We have never gone away from the fact that the town plan and the policy statement in there that if the road was provided the land is in the town plan and this Council would have approved it . |