Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 2 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 3 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 4 | The appendix does not have any function in man ( i.e. it is a vestigial organ ) and therefore its removal would make no difference to Julie 's normal activities once she had recovered from the operation itself . |
| 5 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 6 | And , although he had benefited from the publicity surrounding the death and from the cheapness of the star 's replacement , he would also have benefited from Michael Banks 's drawing power , had he survived . |
| 7 | Once he had withdrawn from the scene their natural antipathy to landlords re-asserted itself . |
| 8 | Once it had withdrawn from the BCOA , Pittston rejected the union contract and cut off health benefits to 1,500 widows , disabled miners , and pensioners . |
| 9 | Remember that if you have strayed from the sensible paths of nutrition on occasion — panic not ! |
| 10 | Well , no point in going into that until we 've heard from the labs . |
| 11 | At the hotel , Salah greeted us as if we had returned from the dead , pumping our hands and laughing , " Crazy English , crazy English . " |
| 12 | Then , as if they 'd recovered from the surprise , they began to laugh , snorting and giggling in delight at the water being thrown at them , like two children playing a game . |
| 13 | The 18th-century mountain traveller John Macculloch described Sutherlands as containing ‘ mountains which seem as if they had tumbled from the clouds , having nothing to do with the country or each other . ’ |
| 14 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 15 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 16 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 17 | The claim form asks Policyholders if they have suffered from a similar illness previously . |
| 18 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 19 | The scene of Essex 's rebellion , in which the Earl never appears , has been judged unfavourably , especially the running commentary provided by the blind ballad-singer.I wonder how widely praised this scene would be if it had issued from the hands of Brecht or one of his collaborators . |
| 20 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 21 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 22 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
| 23 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
| 24 | The publication of intimate details of private lives without the slightest public interest justification can not be the subject of legal action , unless they have stemmed from a breach of confidence or some other legal wrong . |
| 25 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant . |
| 28 | For some of us it is because we have suffered from the emotional manipulations of others . |
| 29 | By 1987 about 65% of the women were no longer under observation , mainly because they had moved from the recruiting doctors ' practice area . |
| 30 | These results relate to data available at April 1987 , by which time about 65% of sucjects were no longer under observation , mainly because they have moved from the recruiting doctors ' practice . |