Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 2 | Under the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in Syria , they were treated with contempt , abandoned to the poverty of the hill villages in southern Lebanon where they had originally come from Mount Lebanon . |
| 3 | Honestly the only bad thing that I 've ever got from a shop is a porno video . |
| 4 | May I draw the Economic Secretary 's attention to a study that I have just received from the House of Commons Library 's statistical section ? |
| 5 | I am concerned that I have recently received from the National Westminster Bank an invoice for £10.58 which they have debited from the Parish Council account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ , apparently on your instructions . |
| 6 | I offer the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) my heartfelt thanks for giving what is almost the first straight answer that I have ever extracted from him . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State made one of the worst speeches that I have ever heard from a Minister in the House . |
| 8 | The right hon. Gentleman made the weakest speech in favour of a guillotine motion that I have ever heard from a Leader of the House and that is saying something . |
| 9 | A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory . |
| 10 | The rocks were gigantic boulders of conglomerate , monstrous in their barren strangeness , much larger now we were close to them than I had ever realized from the island . |
| 11 | ‘ So I 've already gathered from your own choice of decorating gear , ’ he murmured , once again letting his eyes roam freely over the leotard and leggings clinging lovingly to her like a second skin . |
| 12 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 13 | We knew the weather conditions were calm enough inshore but fresher on the other side of the Channel so the indications were that she had probably crossed from France overnight . |
| 14 | Neither did Liza have any idea that she had also inherited from Tom Tremayne the convenient ability of closing her mind to unpalatable truths . |
| 15 | She tried to feel pleased that she had n't descended from such uncompromising stock , but it was still a shock to have been told that William Ash was not her father , and that Eddie had only been her half-brother . |
| 16 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 17 | It may be that Britain has overemphasised the potential benefits of free trade ; that she has actually benefited from the protectionist philosophy which permeates the EEC ; that being a member of a cohesive new power bloc is what has counted ; that the ‘ fight ’ with the Americans over agricultural matters is a case in point ; that had she been on her own , Britain would have been trampled over by her cousins on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 18 | That you had actually shifted from this to that , and you went off and did whatever it was . |
| 19 | Now we may suggest that that 's the effect of the Second World War biasing alright biasing the estimates that we 've just produced from the whole sample . |
| 20 | Er for example all of us in this room , if we went to one destination , we 'd probably all come away with a different combination of things that we 'd actually got from it . |
| 21 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 22 | It also supported Bitstream 's Speedo fonts , giving users a far wider choice of typefaces than they 've ever had from a DOS product . |
| 23 | She hoped that they had not dispersed from their downstairs room . |
| 24 | A key feature of the battery of initiatives is that they have largely stemmed from a Human Resource Management approach which is directed at employees as individuals . |
| 25 | Is the Minister aware that an Essex GP is calling on national health service hospitals in the Mid-Essex health authority to boost incomes by carrying out privately , in pay beds , procedures that they have effectively banned from the NHS ? |
| 26 | Two years after the secession , Robert of Stratford , the Chancellor of England and Oxford , wrote to Cambridge University with the sobering thought that and until 1854 , Oxford made students swear an oath They even took the Brazenose gate knocker to Oxford in 189O under the impression that it had originally come from Oxford . |
| 27 | It may consider it will get better marketing support from Novell and the Univel partnership than it has previously had from the relatively small SCO operation here . |
| 28 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 29 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 30 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |