Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 91 | We have now moved on from looking at syllables to looking at words , and we will consider certain well-known English words that can be pronounced in two different ways , which are called strong forms and weak forms . |
| 92 | Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was . |
| 93 | For instance you see all these big they 'd actually built up from the ground up , they 'd no taking now just the odd . |
| 94 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 95 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 96 | He also cited the fact that they had not profited personally from their conduct , that they had " a record of long and distinguished service " , and that all had already in terms of emotional anguish and damaged careers paid a price which was " grossly disproportionate to any misdeeds or errors of judgement they might have committed " . |
| 97 | Rooted near the bottom of the table , they had not won away from home for nearly two years . |
| 98 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 99 | They assemble in colonies many thousand strong and nest in long holes that they have either taken over from rabbits or dug for themselves . |
| 100 | Well they have n't come back from the shop yet . |
| 101 | They have not shied away from sensitive areas . |
| 102 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 103 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 104 | Both roles have involved handing out criticism , a task he has not held back from especially in this , the last year before he retires . |
| 105 | The question is , if he has subsequently borrowed more from the testator , up to what point he has been released from his debts . |
| 106 | ‘ While the Chris Hani case did have a tremendous impact on South Africa it has not taken away from investigations into the murders of Julie and Elizabeth . ’ |
| 107 | Keegan said : ‘ Obviously there may be some truth in it , but it has n't come out from this end . |
| 108 | It has also borrowed heavily from the experience of Afro-America 's shift into electoral politics — the black mayors ' movement and so on . |
| 109 | My first book was an experiment to see if I could write and it has just gone on from there . ’ |
| 110 | It has already spread out from its core business , and is spreading wider still , from software into the information business itself . |
| 111 | Coxall and Robins ’ ( 1989 , p. 309 ) apology for a Conservative-dominated press , that ‘ it has never shied away from criticising the Conservative Party or a Conservative Government ’ , is misleading . |
| 112 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 113 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 114 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 115 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 116 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |
| 117 | In fact , if he had n't looked up from his coffee and spotted her in the doorway , Caroline might have returned to her room and waited until she was sure he 'd gone . |
| 118 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |
| 119 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 120 | Are we to assume then that he had now switched over from being an evangelist and was a deliberate artist in the making , out in the open for all to see ? |