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

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31 John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York .
32 My local mountain rescue team needed a doctor and things have just moved on from there .
33 So far this argument has not departed far from the ‘ radical social control ’ position outlined above .
34 In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept .
35 ‘ At least Mike has n't run away from his past .
36 The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here .
37 Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size .
38 The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze .
39 The differences between the painters appear to have been purely personal , but Delaunay had also moved away from the other Cubists in his works of 1912 , and , using his Cubist researches as a point of departure , was developing a much more purely abstract kind of painting with colour as its principal element .
40 Crossman Block have wholly taken over from Lloyd & Co. and are now the sole solicitors instructed by the interim government .
41 Local people have already suffered appallingly from the dangers of the Cubatoa industrial park with its 23 major factories , attracted to the region by a government policy promising no pollution control .
42 Obviously things have changed : not that long ago ‘ medium grade ’ meant VS and the centre of gravity has certainly moved up from there — but I bet the majority of climbers are still performing regularly at ‘ only ’ HVS/E1 .
43 The Government has also backpedalled furiously from a threat made last week by the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , to scupper the bill if the vote on the social chapter was lost .
44 Finally it will be bundled with a Windows-based graphical client , something that Pick has long shied away from , but which it now accepts that is on a number of users ' ‘ tick-boxes ’ .
45 That 's the reality of homebuilding , and in this book Geoff Jones has n't shied away from recognising that patience and a sense of humour are as essential to the completion of a project as adeptness with bandsaw or metal shears .
46 One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping .
47 But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed .
48 The rest of the so-called queen 's bishops had all suffered acutely from Edward 's tyranny , and even some of the others had been the targets of at least his threats .
49 They could not forget that the American government had already backed away from some of its more liberal inclinations on postwar world economic development in the face of various domestic pressure groups .
50 Significantly , the European areas of the ex-Empire that had been more pronounced than Belorussia in their ethnic and/or religious divergence from the Great-Russian norm had either broken away from Bolshevik Russia ( the Baltic littoral and Finland ) or else created serious difficulties for the Bolsheviks ( Georgia in 1922 ) .
51 modern rhythmic gymnastics was created by the Russians … our top girls have just come back from special coaching over there … it showed in the championships … the best yet and the the closest with Alitia Sands of Coventry winning by point nort five of a point
52 ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer .
53 Newell has also arrived impressively from the Second and took his goal with poise .
54 She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning .
55 At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter .
56 Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time .
57 ‘ It takes two to make a baby … but men have always run away from their responsibilities .
58 In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one .
59 It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds .
60 And although attendance during the rainy season was poor , the company 's projection of 11m visitors for the first year has not proved far from the mark .
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