Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 2 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 3 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 4 | No , it 's alright cos someone 's rung up from home , say be in eight o'clock , so she wants to do something . |
| 5 | And especially so , it appeared , if you had done well from nothing , like Dad . |
| 6 | It is advisable to wear loose , comfortable clothing , although if you have come straight from work this may not be possible and is not essential . |
| 7 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 8 | The exploitation of ethnicity may perhaps work as a form of primitive accumulation of cultural capital , but it does nothing to enlarge the audience or scope of such work , which is why most artists and writers of any stature have rejected this appellation , even if they have benefited indirectly from it . |
| 9 | Cranston himself said nothing until they had walked away from the royal enclosure . |
| 10 | The new consortium which will be putting its offer to Leckpatrick next week has called on shareholders to take no action until they have heard further from the consortium . |
| 11 | They reckon there was a load of fallen branches lying under the air shaft before we pushed the guy down it ; according to the young cop who first went down it looked like he 'd crawled out from the middle of the pile . |
| 12 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 13 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 14 | No dog , he noticed , but Cara 's son , the silent child who had always made him feel so ill at ease , still sitting by the hearth as if he had grown there from a morose three-year-old into a clean and tidy , almost dandified five . |
| 15 | It was a relief when Stephen Copley , the Senior Chemist , arrived just before ten , bustling in as usual , his rubicund face with its tonsure and fringe of black curly hair glistening as if he had come in from the sun . |
| 16 | Because I had come straight from college , it was really difficult for me to tolerate that sort of behaviour , so I managed to er convince the workers to form a union . |
| 17 | People try to beat that misery with barbiturates , but nothing can cure it because you 've taken away from yourself all chance of feeling pleasure . |
| 18 | ( Five year cases only ) If you are applying for a divorce because you have lived apart from your husband or wife for at least five years , your application would not be granted if it meant that your husband or wife would suffer grave financial hardship . |
| 19 | Mrs Brown , 35 , has since made a full recovery but was unable to attend the ceremony because she has moved away from the area . |
| 20 | The use of ‘ strong ’ is significant because we have moved now from a weak , lifeless stance to a healthier , more robust one . |
| 21 | I mean for a it 's a habit , why he walks like that because he 's come home from the Duke so many times pissed in n it ? |
| 22 | Fletcher offered no explanation till he had driven away from the Parc Hotel . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |
| 25 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 26 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 27 | But an intimate dinner at the château was another matter altogether — because this would be the first time she 'd as much as set eyes on him since he 'd walked away from her outside this very room on that awful night . |
| 28 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 29 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 30 | Even now , three weeks after she 'd driven away from that little cottage near Glenshee , he was still imprinted on her heart like a brand . |