Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv prt] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 2 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 3 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |
| 4 | Williams could also be on the mark with Capricorn Note in the other 450 metres open , though Dawn Milligan 's latest acquisition , Valentinos Joy , which has moved down from Scotland , trialled in 26.60 secs ( going 30 fast ) . |
| 5 | He wants me to have some tinned pears which have come in from South Africa . |
| 6 | New secretary Paul Birks of Mason 's Ironstone , who has taken over from Peter Masheter , said : ‘ Golf is no longer seen as a rich man 's sport and is accessible to all ages and pockets . |
| 7 | But Souness is backing the player who has taken over from Bruce Grobbelaar , Anfield 's first-choice keeper for the last 11 seasons . |
| 8 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 9 | A past secretary of Monmouthshire Show she has taken over from Liz Davies who is now full-time NFU group secretary for Brecon and Radnor North . |
| 10 | She might be willing to give me , as the tenant of the former Mackay home , the details she had kept back from Ann and Megan . |
| 11 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
| 12 | She had found out from Angy 's relatives that she was living in the area and had secretly taken the opportunity of getting in touch with her . |
| 13 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 14 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 15 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 16 | He eyed Fenella uncertainly and Fenella , who was becoming impatient , said , ‘ Well , for heaven 's sake — ’ which was an expression she had picked up from Snizort and Snodgrass and which was as meaningless as most of their expressions , but descriptive of strong emotion . |
| 17 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 18 | Bernadette 's tearful sister Rosie , who had flown in from Germany , said : ‘ All the relatives are giving Farrah lots of hugs and kisses . |
| 19 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |
| 20 | It was a cruel blow for Blackburn , who had bounced back from Sunday 's Coca-Cola Cup semi-final defeat at Hillsborough to twice lead through Steve Livingstone and Mike Newell . |
| 21 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 22 | Falling under the spell of an older , flamboyantly dressed and well-educated kinsman , Esme Stuart , who had come over from France , he was suspected of dangerously Papist leanings and of some unnatural sexual habits . |
| 23 | Everyone was wandering around the house getting everything ready for my uncle who had come over from Nigeria . |
| 24 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 25 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 26 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 27 | The senior man , who had come in from Los Angeles to E.B.I.H.Q. after Erlich had left Washington , he 'd be everybody 's friend , he 'd have them eating out of his hand down at Counter-Terrorism , he 'd probably take out citizenship . |
| 28 | Recalled the team of copy humans who had come in from Mars to kill him . |
| 29 | It was perhaps partly for this reason that on 21 September he ordered General Enrique Varela ( who had taken over from Yagüe when the latter became ill ) to make a detour to Toledo , to relieve what remained of nearly 2,000 Nationalists who had been besieged in the giant fortress — the alcazar — since the end of July . |
| 30 | Duncan Wood , who had taken over from Michael Mills as BBC television 's head of comedy , asked Allen to see Crawford on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British . |