Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] from be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have progressed from being an underpaid woman worker to being an underpaid pensioner . ’ |
| 2 | I wanted to give back something for the great interest and happiness I have had from being able to make music to people . |
| 3 | ‘ Glad to see you 've recovered from being goosed by Mrs Cody . |
| 4 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 5 | Inside 12 months we 've gone from being an old side to having some very encouraging youngsters . ’ |
| 6 | We have gone from being the bread basket of Central America to being its basket case ; an international beggar with the largest per capita foreign debt in Latin America . |
| 7 | ‘ He has gone from being totally subdued and unsure of everyone to playing games , just as we used to . |
| 8 | He has moved from being a persecuted minority to a person with full and equal ‘ rights ’ . |
| 9 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |
| 10 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 11 | By 1981 , it had fallen from being four per cent of the population in 1971 , to just 3.49 per cent . |
| 12 | In his life he had risen from being a poor farm boy to become the wealthy entrepreneurial head of a vast business conglomerate , all of it created by his own acumen , and had established a dynasty which still ranks high on the world 's ladder of wealth and social standing . |
| 13 | In barely two weeks ( 12 – 25 July ) , he had gone from being very reluctant to participate in the rising to being one of its main protagonists , and a vital interlocutor with Hitler and Mussolini . |
| 14 | Erm , I I heard something over the weekend , that that erm , mentioned er an American drug company , that has come up with whatever drug and it 's moved from being a million pound concern , into a multi-million pound concern , because of these discoveries , |
| 15 | at the moment the only source it 's come from is directed projects . |
| 16 | No idea he 's gone from being a Jewish rabbi last night and he 's he 's sort of gone okay we 'll leap now out of , so he 's leapt out of that one and he 's leapt straight into a fucking little boy 's erm body right , and he 's a mongoloid poor little soul and he 's a downs syndrome kid . |