Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ In the car you 've just come from , madam , ’ I answered helpfully . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During the course of the evening she met Princess Grace of Monaco , a woman she had always admired from afar . |
| 15 | And the best advice she has ever had from a conductor ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ … |
| 18 | If you remove the piece of rib you 've just knitted from the machine and then compare its width with the width of the needles in working position , you 'll see what I mean . |
| 19 | It was the first thing I 'd ever kept from her . |
| 20 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 21 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 22 | The crunchy texture was like a raw potato she had once stolen from Mrs Parvis 's vegetable rack . |
| 23 | Now follow the first backwards pointer ( i.e. back to the node we have just come from , e.g. from the ‘ c ’ node back to the ‘ d ’ node ) , and take the next route forwards again ( to the ‘ l ’ node , giving another complete candidate string ljadl ) . |
| 24 | It was the first letter they had ever received from him . |
| 25 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 26 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 27 | ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained . |
| 28 | Cobalt called in the most enthusiastic tone she had ever heard from him . |
| 29 | What a long way we have suddenly moved from the point argued in Chapter Five , that in dramatic playing the participant is adopting a function . |
| 30 | He pushed on quickly with words in order to forget that tone he had never heard from her before . |