Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | No changes … a new skipper though Shaun Taylor has officially taken over from Ross Maclaren … |
| 2 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 3 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 4 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 5 | Capercaillie in Scotland have already come back from near extinction once . |
| 6 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 7 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 9 | ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . ) |
| 10 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 11 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 12 | She and Mandy had finally got in from last night 's fiasco around four in the morning . |
| 13 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |
| 14 | There is a considerable shake-up at the Northern Ireland Office , where Sir Patrick Mayhew has already taken over from Mr Peter Brooke as Secretary of State . |