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

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1 THE irritating Buzby has long since flown from BT 's nest .
2 Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure .
3 The smallest breed is one that has only recently arrived from Singapore , where it was known as the ‘ drain cat ’ .
4 At the same time , the purchaser will not wish to return cash to the vendor that he has not yet collected from debtors , nor will the purchaser be willing to use its own funds to satisfy creditors on behalf of the vendor .
5 For instance , the milk , which is a fairly essential ingredient , has not necessarily come from Wensleydale .
6 In another version of this theme family law stands accused of having so far departed from principle and precedent as to be arbitrary , thereby losing its claim to guide conduct .
7 She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ?
8 Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old .
9 The new Minister , Idris Wakil , who had only recently come from Zanzibar to join the new Cabinet after the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar , explained the reason for the new Ministry. :
10 Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention .
11 In forty-four years the British had yet to recover fully from victory in the Second World War , even though the Germans and Japanese had so manifestly recovered from defeat .
12 Win Morgan had obviously just woken from sleep , her eyes were heavy and her thin grey hair ruffled .
13 Tuathal , who knew that thoroughness was the secret of success , had long since extracted from Thorkel Fóstri all that he could tell about Earl Siward of Northumbria , and had deduced a good deal more .
14 The lake had long since disappeared from view .
15 Perhaps Caro 's declaration that her stepbrother was very likeable had not just stemmed from partiality .
16 Even if they were , they had not necessarily fallen from grace .
17 The balance had once more swung from centralisation to decentralisation , but the attempt to make doctors and nurses more accountable for resource decisions continued .
18 Andrew Ridgley and I had both just come from school about nine months before we took off with WHAM !
19 She was carrying a shopping bag and had evidently just returned from town .
20 I 've never actually flown from Heathrow , I 've been
21 ‘ But they have long since vanished from Ireland , Fergus , and it may be that I will be the last Queen to have seen them and heard them .
22 In recent years the discount houses have not only borrowed from banks , but also lent to them by purchasing certificates of deposit .
23 In fact , it is only too evident that major political changes have very often resulted from violence , not only in revolutions and counter-revolutions , but also in wars of conquest or of national independence .
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