Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Somerset establishment ganged up on them , wrongly accused them of being troublemakers , and one committee member tried shamefully to get them sacked from their newspapers . |
| 2 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 3 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 4 | Neither of them disclosed from whom this permission would have to be obtained . |
| 5 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 6 | ‘ Am I exonerated from being a wimp ? ’ |
| 7 | Latterly they looked increasingly obsolete when compared with the modern cars operated by Blackpool , and indeed most of them dated from the early years of the Century . |
| 8 | I use them , but I keep them separated from the majority of plants by surrounding them with strips of glass siliconed to the tank base . |
| 9 | ‘ Decisions are best when everyone contributes rather than having them imposed from above . |
| 10 | Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s . |
| 11 | One of his particular enjoyments at camp was the log-fire singing , whose ebullience and rhythms remain with him even today , many of them drawn from The People 's Song Book . |
| 12 | So when it seemed the conversation was nearly over and , for the first time since he had known her , she appeared to have called for no reason , he was almost relieved to hear her ask , ‘ Now then , David , have you heard from him ? ’ |
| 13 | Have you heard from him ? ’ |
| 14 | Have you heard from her since then ? |
| 15 | Have you heard from Bishop Jon ? |
| 16 | And as she was about to hurry away again , she asked , ‘ Have you heard from Charlie ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Have you heard from Sebastian recently ? ’ he enquired . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you heard from Sebastian ? ’ was her mother 's first excited question . |
| 19 | Have you heard from the people yet ? |
| 20 | What about , have you heard from them lately ? |
| 21 | Oh Dave , yeah , have you heard from Dave , you used to make |
| 22 | Have you heard from Dee ? |
| 23 | Have you heard from home ? |
| 24 | I know he does Have you heard from your brother ? |
| 25 | and er , she said I , I said have you heard from Paul , because the last time I spoke to her she had n't |
| 26 | And , have you heard from the erm cousins and er |
| 27 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 28 | This time I 'm not letting you off so lightly — which is what I was actually doing when I had you dismissed from that other one , ’ he stated outrageously . |
| 29 | When five o'clock came , however , and not one word had she heard from Naylor , Leith , with something akin to relief , realised that she had been mistaken . |
| 30 | Have you heard , has she heard from Ben , have they heard from Ben ? |