Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin . |
| 2 | A fire blazed in a huge hearth beneath an oak lintel which , to judge by its thickness , must have come from a tree already at least a hundred years old when it was felled to help build this ancient building . |
| 3 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 4 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 5 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
| 6 | Modi 's reserve might have sprung from a desire to shield Jeanne from gossip , and perhaps a feeling of shame in front of a married man , at his own role in the affair . |
| 7 | Insp Rodgers said : ‘ It seems this could have stemmed from a dispute over parking . ’ |
| 8 | In both these cases the alleged negligence was that of the medical staff at a hospital , but , as the decided cases show , it could have arisen from a range of other contexts , for instance from negligent driving of a motor vehicle or negligence on the part of a railway company or tramway company in respect of a train or tram in which the mother of the child was travelling as a passenger while pregnant . |
| 9 | His shiny black coat could have come from a labrador and there was a suggestion of terrier in the pointed nose and priced ears , but the long string-like tail and the knock-kneed fore limbs baffled me . |
| 10 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 11 | My feet were secured by a length of electric cable which could have come from a table lamp . |
| 12 | Although he was obviously placed carefully on to the sofa , the freshly pomaded hair is awry and could have benefited from a comb prior to being photographed . |
| 13 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 14 | As described in the previous section , this may have resulted from a decrease in the number of elderly people using buses following the introduction in September 1991 of fares for concessionary travel . |
| 15 | This may have resulted from a number of factors : progressive stripping of the upper soil horizons , gullying or the introduction of plough agriculture . |
| 16 | It is best known for persecuting Indian peasants , especially the lower castes or ‘ Untouchables ’ , who may have stolen from a neighbour or have demonstrated dirty habits . |
| 17 | Compound documents of this type are traditionally assembled by layout artists from the various elements which may have come from a typesetting house , design studio , photographer or elsewhere . |
| 18 | A court has been told that the idea for an elaborate murder plot , in which a couple were pushed over a cliff in a blazing car , may have come from a film on satellite television . |