Example sentences of "[verb] been from " in BNC.
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| 31 | If they were n't from shame they might have been from Norman Ebbsworth : he finished the visit having hit 38 fours and 18 ‘ brilliant sixers ’ . |
| 32 | What a far cry this must have been from his younger days in the priesthood . |
| 33 | He feared what the results might have been from the local elections and he 's , he 's an example in fact of a prime minister who went into the elections trailing in the opinion polls . |
| 34 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 35 | It may have been from a belief that deputies provide a less good service , although published research has shown high patient satisfaction with deputies . |
| 36 | If this prophecy conveys anything of the sentiments of the Crowland community at the time , it must have been from congenial company hostile to Penda 's descendants that Aethelbald emerged to establish himself as king in Mercia , if not when Ceolred died ( ASC A , s.a. , 716 ) then certainly when an otherwise unknown Ceolwald , who may have succeeded Ceolred , died or was driven out . |
| 37 | Could he have been from the border of Italy and Yugoslavia ? |
| 38 | He was survived by his widow and seven sons and five daughters , some of whom may have been from his previous marriage . |
| 39 | He observed that his authority and influence were likely to have put her still more off her guard than she would naturally have been from her age and inexperience ; that a fear and awe of the prisoner might check her resistance … ’ |
| 40 | The scarcity of infill in the basins on the far side can be explained in the lava model if the Moon has a global crust and if it is thicker on the far side : the thicker the crust the less available would lava have been from beneath it . |
| 41 | This could have been from various modes of formation , or from the presence of appreciable quantities of short-lived quick-acting radioactive isotopes , such as 26 Al . |
| 42 | These guys could have been from any one of them . |
| 43 | Could the murderer have been from either of these ? ’ |
| 44 | She 'd automatically assumed that it was from Ryan , only of course it was n't , and if she had been thinking rationally before she would have known it could n't possibly have been from him . |
| 45 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 46 | Through binoculars from the press box , it was no less baffling than it must have been from the pitch-side dug-out . |
| 47 | It 's as near to the as it would have been from there |
| 48 | The hey-day of sport in our village seems to have been from the late 19th century up to the 1914 war , with a short revival between the wars but although attempts have been made at intervals the same enthusiasm does n't seem to prevail . |
| 49 | One bus is believed to have been from west Belfast . |
| 50 | They were not Harry 's creation : they were too recently generated to have been from him . |
| 51 | All the previous imports had been from Germany , but one of the most influential imports of the early 1960s was made by the Elsdens , who looked to Holland for their import . |
| 52 | For her it had been from the tender age of five , when her own brother and male ‘ friends ’ of a single-parent family abused her . |
| 53 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |
| 54 | But now the human nature of Jesus was not only perfect — as it had been from conception — it was a risen humanity beyond death . |
| 55 | The call had been for Hank , and had been from one of his classmates , who said that he just wanted to inquire how Hank was . |
| 56 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 57 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 58 | The famous English institutions of learning , the universities and colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and the colleges at Eton and Winchester were specifically exempted from the provisions of the Act , as they had been from earlier legislation . |
| 59 | It had been from their lips that I first heard uttered the expression avare comme un juif , followed by a vicious attack on the only Jewish family in their village to have survived the war and returned to claim their old house . |
| 60 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |