Example sentences of "they have [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd gone from legless to stone cold sober in nothing flat . |
| 2 | They 've gone from three thousand down to eight hundred and th they 've actually recruited five ! |
| 3 | We 've had a good living out of it but if that same system has brought them on their feet , you know and built them nice homes er right they 've delved into Company 's House now , all the dirty water not dirty water all the whatsit has come up how much they 've drawn from these quarries . |
| 4 | They were once found almost everywhere in Britain , but pollution of our rivers and the destruction of the otter 's natural habitat has meant that they 've disappeared from many parts . |
| 5 | For more than a century , they 've come from far and wide to Tenbury Wells for the pre Christmas auction of holly , mistletoe and wreaths . |
| 6 | They 've come from next door got ta be they 've bor , burrowed down a ha , another |
| 7 | They 're standard army ammunition , but not necessarily issued to the British Army — again , the Ministry of Defence should be able to tell you if they 've come from some British Army depot or not . |
| 8 | The reasoning offered by the court centred on the fact that such persons had special access to inside information which arose from communications they had received from primary insiders . |
| 9 | The Italian team went on to suggest a solution they had prepared from simple chemicals available in the fourteenth century . |
| 10 | They had suffered from twenty cases of arson in the last two months of 1921 , which he ascribed to White supporters of Kolchak . |
| 11 | In a recent National Computing Centre survey , 41% of respondents said they had suffered from physical security breaches , the most common cause being power failure . |
| 12 | All fees were abolished — they had gone from elementary schools in 1918 , at the end of the First World War , and now parents in Cardiff would not have to pay ten guineas per annum for access to Blake and Donne . |
| 13 | On top of this , Germany 's trading partners have benefited less than they had hoped from increased demand in Germany . |
| 14 | They had sprouted from buried wood in the vegetable garden and sported livid blue-green , slimy caps . |
| 15 | Laura Davies , Sue Strudwick , Trish Johnson and Nicholas yesterday all spoke as one on the subject of how , but for the support they had had from certain European sponsors down the years , they would all be thinking in terms of pulling out of playing in Europe altogether . |
| 16 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 17 | If they had come from any other man or woman in the kingdom of Scotland , they would have been considered treasonable ; writing to her brother Henry , Margaret made constant pleas for the English to send troops into Scotland to restore her as Regent and crush any opposition to her and the Earl of Angus . |
| 18 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 19 | Whatever information they had came from such second-hand reports as they were bound to pick up either in Marseilles or in Italy or in the Balkans , without having to visit the country for themselves . |
| 20 | A year later — by mid-1983 — three of his former colleagues — Miles Broadbent ( who replaced Norman as London managing director of Russell Reynolds ) , Julian Sainty and James Hervey-Bathurst — also defected , and Norman Broadbent International was formally established , helped by the credibility they had acquired from these prestigious assignments . |
| 21 | The man who 's just won an election usually thinks things have gone from to better and the man who 's lost it thinks they have gone from bad to worse . |
| 22 | The purpose of an audit should be defined as being ‘ to provide an independent opinion to those with an interest in a company that they have received from those responsible for its direction and management an adequate account of : the proper conduct of the company 's affairs ; the company 's financial performance and position ; future risks attaching to the company . ’ |
| 23 | They have they have extended from six o'clock till quarter to seven and then |
| 24 | The Government has withdrawn funding for new house building , and refused to allow councils to spend the receipts they have gained from new house owners . |
| 25 | The numbers recorded annually vary widely ; since 1960 , for example , they have ranged from two in 1962 to about 40 in 1970 . |