Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 2 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 3 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |
| 4 | ‘ In the car you 've just come from , madam , ’ I answered helpfully . |
| 5 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 6 | A wing is composed of upper and lower layers which may readily be separated in an insect which has just emerged from the pupa . |
| 7 | This route which had formerly run from London Bridge to Tooting Junction , had been divided when route 30 was converted to trolleybuses and had become tram route 12 London Bridge — Battersea — Wandsworth and trolleybus route 612 Battersea — Wandsworth — Tooting — Mitcham . |
| 8 | Beverley himself had not returned from the town . |
| 9 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 10 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
| 11 | In the event Clinton won the New York contest comfortably , and saw Brown beaten into third place by Paul Tsongas who had already withdrawn from the contest . |
| 12 | These patients were all members of a family of Kurdish refugees who had recently arrived from Turkey , not patients from the AIDS wards or clinic . |
| 13 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 14 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
| 15 | How far can it be right for the judiciary , whom no one has elected , to assume the mantle of the legislature by inventing and applying to legislation , under the guise of construction , concepts of public policy which Parliament itself has deliberately refrained from expressing ? |
| 16 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 17 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 18 | ‘ This makes the church sensitive to the needs of those areas and that section of the population which has not benefited from the last 10 years of Conservative government , ’ he says , claiming that there is ‘ no automatic connection between wealth creation and a happy society ’ . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , reports on Sept. 20 said that a Harvard University medical team which had recently returned from Iraq had found that the number of child deaths due to malnutrition and disease had trebled since the imposition of sanctions . |
| 20 | A NASA research team which has recently returned from the Arctic observed a similar pattern of events and is extremely concerned that a second ‘ hole ’ may appear over the Arctic . |
| 21 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 22 | He wrote a short book entitled What Happened in Burma , described on the cover as ‘ the frank revelations of a young Burmese revolutionary leader who has recently escaped from Burma to India ’ . |
| 23 | A relief worker from one of the region 's charities who has just returned from Somalia says the appalling suffering of women and children will remain etched on his mind for ever . |
| 24 | No , because over the last six years we 've actually gone from bottom of the pile to tenth from bottom . |
| 25 | Over the past 10 years we have already come from a situation where road runners were getting virtually nothing from the sport , to a far more respected and well-provided role . ’ |
| 26 | Over the past ten years we have all learned from watching IOR boats that fractional rigs outperform masthead rigs . |
| 27 | The debonair style they both preferred for handling issues gave or grim was part of an improbable legacy from P. G. Wodehouse , whose inter-war writings they had both admired from boyhood on . |
| 28 | In May Devi Lal 's son , Om Prakash Chauthala , had been forced to resign as the Janata Dal Chief Minister of Haryana ( a post he had effectively inherited from his father in December 1989 ) after months of controversy over a state-level by-election [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 29 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 30 | Its plans for the CICS business , meantime , include a hybrid system combining elements of PD/MVS ; Radar , its regional analysis tool ; and Eyewitness , the fault diagnostic tool it has just acquired from its Vienna , Virginia-based rival Landmark Systems Corp ( CI No 2,044 ) . |