Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 2 | They were armed with thousands and thousands of signatures they had collected from their parishes and their local communities in the weeks leading up to the lobby . |
| 3 | Of the hundreds of prisoners who had escaped from the orphanage there were still a number hidden in the surrounding countryside , but I did not know where . |
| 4 | Donna remembered with sorrow the number of humiliations she had endured from her in school , and the thought of exposing the contents of the parcel she was carrying to such a merciless judge unnerved her . |
| 5 | There were reports from Carole Fuller on the number of congregants which had increased from 128 to 141 over the past ten months , and on the musical life of the church . |
| 6 | The event brought together many members of the Wills family with friends from the wide range of organisations which have benefited from Wills family generosity over the decades . |
| 7 | In a few hundreds , or at most thousands , of years we have gone from wolf to Pekinese , Bulldog , Chihuahua and Saint Bernard . |
| 8 | No such act of measurement could change what those spins already were ; it could only bring to light a state of affairs which had existed from the moment of separation . |
| 9 | This is a relatively new state of affairs which has resulted from the changes noted above . |
| 10 | This sometimes made for superficial complication ; the Third Republic conferred no titles of nobility , yet more were used than ever before in France , thanks to the inflation and confusion of aristocracies which had flowed from the creations of Bourbon , Orleanist and two Imperial régimes . |
| 11 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 12 | Instead of the doctors and nurses we so urgently need , we have an army of bureaucrats which has expanded from 700 to 13,200 in the same time . |
| 13 | I have also complained to you continually about the loss of orders I have taken from my customers , ie back orders which get lost on the computer or they are not delivered due to the lack of stock . |
| 14 | According to the rules established by Lanfranc for refugee inhabitants of nunneries who had fled from the Normans but had not taken monastic vows , Gunhilda was eligible for marriage . |
| 15 | His brief obituaries of friends who have died from HIV sear the eyes and mind . |
| 16 | Indeed , chartered surveyors in London have been encouraged — but ultimately , frustrated — by the volume of enquiries they have had from investors interested in picking-up commercial property at favourable prices . |
| 17 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 18 | In a series of estimates which have ranged from 25 or even 30 per cent to 8½ per cent ( was that really said ? ) there is obviously material to suit almost every taste . |
| 19 | From the hundreds of letters I have received from adult survivors the message is quite clear : they wish that someone in their childhood had stopped it . ’ |
| 20 | He was seated on the sofa sifting through a batch of papers he had taken from his attache case . |
| 21 | LIKE thousands of others who have suffered from ‘ tranquilliser ’ drugs , Dorothy King wanted to sue the drug company . |
| 22 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 23 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 24 | Ever since that time , there has been going on throughout the world a series of struggles which have ranged from very minor quarrels at one extreme , to the uttermost ferocity of human warfare at the other . |
| 25 | Foliage gleaning birds pick insects off the leaves ; bark-investigators probe with sharp beaks into cracks ; ground-feeders scavenge for caterpillars which have dropped from trees in order to pupate . |
| 26 | In this context it is interesting to compare the remarks of 100 teachers in 100 research studies with comments I have heard from other arts teachers since , because in most cases similar things are being said now , even after the first round of the GCSE . |
| 27 | The reasoning offered by the court centred on the fact that such persons had special access to inside information which arose from communications they had received from primary insiders . |
| 28 | ‘ Worldly Paris mingled in these sessions with artists in sweaters who had come from the Rotonde and the Dôme … |
| 29 | Recent research has shown up a link between girls who have suffered from some ( often seemingly unimportant or minor ) kind of sexual abuse and those who later go on to develop eating problems . |
| 30 | Keynesian economics , they say , is the comparative static equilibrium approach to macroeconomics which has developed from other people 's interpretations of the General Theory . |