Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 2 | I wondered if this might have been from surprise over the fact that I could write , but it was just one of a fair catalogue of mannerisms he had to offer . |
| 3 | It must have been from an old girlfriend . ’ |
| 4 | Although the pins and needles in his legs could perhaps have been from loss of blood . |
| 5 | ‘ Then it might have been from a bank loan that Andrew raised privately . ’ |
| 6 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |
| 7 | This pension replaces your SERPS ; and the DHSS will assume that you are receiving at least as much as you would have been from them ( you might be , but you might receive much less — there are no guarantees ) . |
| 8 | Generally , it is thought that the cheese took its name from Dunlop village or parish but it could have been from Mrs. Barbara Dunlop ; we will never know . |
| 9 | We could have been from Bombay . |
| 10 | If the message could have been from someone you care for , then where 's the harm in it ? |
| 11 | WHOEVER judged the inflatable sumo wrestling bout at half-time must have been from the WBO . |
| 12 | ‘ A work must enact its own meaning ’ and ‘ Never trust the teller , trust the tale ’ — such Lawrentian tags , garbled as they may have been from the writings of the Master , could inspire and cheer the literate young of the 1940s . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | What a far cry this must have been from his younger days in the priesthood . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 17 | It may have been from a belief that deputies provide a less good service , although published research has shown high patient satisfaction with deputies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Could he have been from the border of Italy and Yugoslavia ? |
| 20 | He was survived by his widow and seven sons and five daughters , some of whom may have been from his previous marriage . |
| 21 | 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 … ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These guys could have been from any one of them . |
| 25 | Could the murderer have been from either of these ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Through binoculars from the press box , it was no less baffling than it must have been from the pitch-side dug-out . |
| 29 | It 's as near to the as it would have been from there |