Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle .
2 Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’
3 Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so .
4 I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’
5 I 've recently moved here from Heymouth ’
6 I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot .
7 I have also learnt much from the skills of others : without Chris Whitaker and Tess Lomax we might not have succeeded in improving the way we organise community care .
8 I have perhaps strayed away from matters of industry .
9 But I have always shied away from using it on tables , perhaps feeling that a table should be capable of taking a certain amount of abuse .
10 Meanwhile , hundreds more job losses have been announced in an area which has already suffered heavily from the recession .
11 Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress .
12 Some , they said had been declared unroadworthy by the Department of Transport who 'd then banned then from the roads and others were needed as evidence of alleged offences .
13 Sometimes , you 've just come home from work and your feet are sore and your head aches , but then the music starts playing and away you go .
14 He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory .
15 When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him .
16 Although she had consistently turned away from singing opportunities — ‘ The more people nagged , the more I was determined to stay away ’ — she realised that this was something that , say , Lulu would never even consider .
17 Paul and Miranda Gunn had their charming young family to help them look after the guests ; their two sons Mr Munro Gunn who works at John D. Wood , and Mr Marcus Gunn who had just got home from Paris , where is working at the Paris Business School ; also their two daughters Miss Petronella Gunn , who is studying at Bristol University ; and seventeen-year-old Miss Rosie Gunn , who is a member of the Junior British Eventing team , and last year competed at Lausanne , where she won the award for the highest placed British rider .
18 When he arrived he got talking with someone of about his age , who had also run away from home .
19 There was fierce controversy surrounding the conference 's decision on April 22 to invite , as guests , members of the 1981 Solidarity leadership who had since split away from the union — most notably the former national co-ordinating commission member Andrzej Gwiazda , who had left after accusing Solidarity 's chairman , Lech Walesa , of generating a personality cult .
20 Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south .
21 United owed much to goalkeeper Rees , who had earlier saved superbly from Holden and later denied Adams , first with a block with his feet then by kicking over a dipping effort from the right .
22 It was proposed initially to carry out the project in the London Borough of Southwark since part of the borough was served by Guy 's Hospital and also in the London Borough of Barnet ( since it had a consultant psychogeriatrician who had recently moved there from Guy 's Hospital ) .
23 Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church .
24 Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes .
25 Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story .
26 Oh , she thinks she 's just come home from
27 Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you .
28 We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before .
29 We 've always kept away from humans ! ’
30 We 've deliberately stayed away from the official national trails in England , Scotland and Wales .
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