Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] have [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh brilliant I think my gob 's just recovered from that . |
| 2 | I did not venture to express my opinion , fearing that my taste might have become corrupted by my long residence in the Indies ; but since my companion had recently come from France , it was quite a relief to hear him say that he had seen nothing in Europe quite so bold and majestic . ’ |
| 3 | I was astonished — no one in my family had ever suffered from it but the doctor explained that it had happened entirely because of the shock of the mugging . |
| 4 | By 1985 it was recorded that the top 6 per cent of the population in income terms now received 25 per cent of national income , while for the poorest 20 per cent their share had actually fallen from even the 5.9 per cent they enjoyed in 1979 . |
| 5 | Her father had just returned from the public house , and was at his most sensitive to the shame brought upon his noble name by Tess . |
| 6 | Unlike the Labour party , for which this is a matter of great difficulty , my party and its predecessor have never shrunk from the fact that if one has effective devolution , and an effective Parliament with the powers that the Bill would establish , the case for the retention of a Scottish Secretary of State in Cabinet would be weakened . |
| 7 | Their headmistress had wilfully departed from the scripture syllabus and her stories had stimulated a prurient interest in sex , thereby corrupting childhood innocence . |
| 8 | Seb started , as though his mind had suddenly returned from a very long distance . |
| 9 | His campaign had also suffered from a paucity of endorsements from leading black political figures , to the extent that , in late December , Wilder had accused the Rev. Jesse Jackson as the leading black Democratic political figure of sabotaging his candidacy . |
| 10 | His wife had already arrived from Wales . |
| 11 | A situation which will continue until such time as my brother and his wife have fully recovered from their injuries . ’ |
| 12 | ( Although Billy had undoubtedly been guilty as charged , the evidence against him had been largely manufactured , and none of his family had ever recovered from the injustice of this . ) |
| 13 | We get caught out with long balls to where our defender has just come from . |
| 14 | ‘ Your father had only qualified from Edinburgh a couple of years before . |