Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to consider the link and the station together , and British Rail and the Government should have done so from the word go . |
| 2 | The doctor said the driver should have come round from the anaesthetic by now . ’ |
| 3 | John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 4 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 5 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 6 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |
| 7 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 8 | For instance , management could have recognised right from the outset that the machinists had a vital role to play and not left this to be argued about in a battle with the computer staff . |
| 9 | In striking contrast , both girls were immaculately clad : dressed in white blouses and white skirts , they could have stepped straight from the pages of Vogue . |
| 10 | It was bobbing up and down from the wash of a smart motorboat which had swept by , filled with haughty-looking Venetians with faces so medieval that they could have stepped straight from the history books . |
| 11 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 12 | But then it occurred to me that Auden 's self-perception could have sprung partially from the necessity to conceal his homosexuality from his public . |
| 13 | Unfortunately their advertising trade card is too detailed and any Resurrectionist worth his salt could have worked out from the illustration how best to break it open . |
| 14 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 15 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 16 | Konings suggests that the ‘ Lanistes-dwellers ’ may have moved out from the rocks to a habitat with less competition . |
| 17 | One of the most intriguing of evolutionary clues is the close chemical similarity between many hormones and the substances that function within the nervous system as neurotransmitters , suggesting that perhaps the second group , the neurotransmitters , may have developed evolutionarily from the first . |
| 18 | There is a small triangular park behind it and the crowd may have spilled out from the Great Hall . |
| 19 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 20 | What I think the public did not appreciate and I do not think would have appreciated clearly from the consultation leaflet , was quite how big a difference there was between the level of relief afforded by the inner relief roads and the outer relief roads , and in that context , I think that to say that the outer relief roads afford relief of between twenty and thirty percent is a little misleading in two respects . |
| 21 | erm They had great services were held in Christchurch Cathedral , and the King would have looked out from the Deans House , and this is the view of Tom Quad , a modern view , of course , of how you can look out onto the Great Quad of Christchurch , but of course it was n't like that . |
| 22 | I do n't think I would have got away from the KGB so easily . |
| 23 | Consequently , by the time the stone reaches the surface of the earth the tower will have moved around from the position it occupied at the beginning of the stone 's downward journey . |
| 24 | If there is a conflict between the baby 's and mother 's welfare after it is born , all public sympathy will have shifted away from the mother . |