Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 2 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |
| 3 | ‘ In the car you 've just come from , madam , ’ I answered helpfully . |
| 4 | A wing is composed of upper and lower layers which may readily be separated in an insect which has just emerged from the pupa . |
| 5 | This route which had formerly run from London Bridge to Tooting Junction , had been divided when route 30 was converted to trolleybuses and had become tram route 12 London Bridge — Battersea — Wandsworth and trolleybus route 612 Battersea — Wandsworth — Tooting — Mitcham . |
| 6 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 7 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
| 9 | How far can it be right for the judiciary , whom no one has elected , to assume the mantle of the legislature by inventing and applying to legislation , under the guise of construction , concepts of public policy which Parliament itself has deliberately refrained from expressing ? |
| 10 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , reports on Sept. 20 said that a Harvard University medical team which had recently returned from Iraq had found that the number of child deaths due to malnutrition and disease had trebled since the imposition of sanctions . |
| 12 | A NASA research team which has recently returned from the Arctic observed a similar pattern of events and is extremely concerned that a second ‘ hole ’ may appear over the Arctic . |
| 13 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 14 | He wrote a short book entitled What Happened in Burma , described on the cover as ‘ the frank revelations of a young Burmese revolutionary leader who has recently escaped from Burma to India ’ . |
| 15 | In May Devi Lal 's son , Om Prakash Chauthala , had been forced to resign as the Janata Dal Chief Minister of Haryana ( a post he had effectively inherited from his father in December 1989 ) after months of controversy over a state-level by-election [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 16 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 17 | Its plans for the CICS business , meantime , include a hybrid system combining elements of PD/MVS ; Radar , its regional analysis tool ; and Eyewitness , the fault diagnostic tool it has just acquired from its Vienna , Virginia-based rival Landmark Systems Corp ( CI No 2,044 ) . |
| 18 | For the above sub-heading I have deliberately copied from the title of a recent publication by Cecily O'Neill and Alan Lambert ( 1982 ) , for it is a manual offering guidance to teachers in their planning of projects for drama . |
| 19 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 20 | Indeed the same evidence has been tendered , the same facts had been brought to the attention of the same Committee in 1972 ; but the Committee had reported to Parliament in the opposite sense , stating the opposite to the evidence they had actually received from those who were competent to tender it . |
| 21 | Let me call in as assistant instructor none other than Mr Graham Greene , with the advice I have already mentioned from one of his books of autobiography . |
| 22 | The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak . |
| 23 | During the course of the evening she met Princess Grace of Monaco , a woman she had always admired from afar . |
| 24 | As you know , I am a manager who has never shirked from putting a player 's welfare before football and , unlike many less tolerant managers , I was quite happy for Steve Gillery to hold his stag ‘ night ’ at 10 a.m. on the morning of the match , albeit a game crucial to our survival . |
| 25 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 26 | And the best advice she has ever had from a conductor ? |
| 27 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 28 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 29 | I simply wish to testify for the legitimacy of the kind of hard tempo evidence I have brought forward and to put it into practice , so that we can begin to renew a sensitivity to areas of stylized feeling from the past which have gradually dropped from view . |
| 30 | Her eyes were as blue as the patch of bright sky which had suddenly emerged from between the clouds and when she looked at him he was sure there was invitation in their depths . |