Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | By creating a few developmental teams covering comparatively large areas , Nottinghamshire had also departed radically from the National Development Group for the Mentally Handicapped ( 1977 ) model of a CMHT . |
| 2 | That was the most personally evocative thing of all , Sabine thought , wincing , and she could understand why Hugh had always shied away from clearing out his wife 's things . |
| 3 | The leadership team had now dropped down from three to two as one of the leaders could not make the trip due to work commitments so the driving was split equally between co-leader Dave Lowe and myself . |
| 4 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 5 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 6 | Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before . |
| 7 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 8 | On the day before the April 18 announcement , the President of the Serbian state presidency , Slobodan Milosevic , had declared that Serbia 's own internal affairs secretariat had now taken over from the federal authorities in administering public security in the province . |
| 9 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |
| 10 | ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . ) |
| 11 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 12 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They were confronted , by contrast , by Prime Ministers of the calibre of Pitt the Younger and by the time Victoria ascended the throne executive power had effectively shifted away from the throne and into the Cabinet room . |