Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [adv prt] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 2 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 3 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |
| 4 | A past secretary of Monmouthshire Show she has taken over from Liz Davies who is now full-time NFU group secretary for Brecon and Radnor North . |
| 5 | She might be willing to give me , as the tenant of the former Mackay home , the details she had kept back from Ann and Megan . |
| 6 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
| 7 | She had found out from Angy 's relatives that she was living in the area and had secretly taken the opportunity of getting in touch with her . |
| 8 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 9 | She remembered that fated evening when she had come back from Wimbledon after seeing Hindley Foster . |
| 10 | Ever since that ghastly winter 's night when she had come back from Wimbledon and said she was pregnant . |
| 11 | He eyed Fenella uncertainly and Fenella , who was becoming impatient , said , ‘ Well , for heaven 's sake — ’ which was an expression she had picked up from Snizort and Snodgrass and which was as meaningless as most of their expressions , but descriptive of strong emotion . |
| 12 | I ca n't send her away — she 's come in from Chesmore . ’ |
| 13 | Before we 'd sailed out from Calabar more than a day , three more were born . |
| 14 | They 've driven down from Sheffield to come with me . |
| 15 | In their ‘ kitchen ’ ( a sink , a hot plate and a kettle , with no proper cooking or storage facilities ) , they point proudly to some Tory Party mugs they had biked over from Smith Square after the election . |
| 16 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 17 | Perhaps the greatest tribute to the system 's aesthetic capabilities was provided by the ex-editor of Classical Music who , some weeks after the changeover from traditional to electronic , asked Tony Gamble why they had changed back from ITC Clearface to the original Times . |
| 18 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 19 | They have moved on from Elim , the oasis of the twelve springs , and have camped at a place called Rephidim . |
| 20 | When he 'd started regaining his confidence he told us that he 'd taken over from Terry in the endless arguments with David Jacobsen . |
| 21 | He 'd taken over from Hercule Riquard as maître de chai , and he poured his whole life into promoting La Tour Monchauzet wines into a class of their own . |
| 22 | He and Rory had had a drink the night before , and Rory confessed he 'd driven up from Belleeks early to cruise around Cultra and reconnoitre . |
| 23 | It had taken off from East Anglia and was en route for Liverpool Airport when it crashed on the Derbyshire/ South Yorkshire border shortly after 4pm . |
| 24 | Instead , he drove away in the , ran over a kerb , got a flat tyre and kept going — to pick up Vicky Vanderford , whom he had flown in from California . |
| 25 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 26 | The station concourse was a seething mass of people , civilian and uniformed , with a fair spattering of the drunks that had always been part of the city 's landscape when he had ridden up from Galloway on weekends free from school . |
| 27 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
| 28 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 29 | It was what should have happened to him when he had come in from Athens , and had n't . |
| 30 | So he had driven down from Edinburgh to intercept the train . |