Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes . |
| 2 | She has not been held away from home for long . ’ |
| 3 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 4 | Work has also been contracted in from the French firm Matra SA and the US company Rockwell International Inc as well as from Digital Equipment Corp . |
| 5 | Ageing machinery that opens or teases wool , a ‘ fearnought ’ , has also been moved away from the blend bins and a new one inserted at an earlier stage of production . |
| 6 | All the major timber clearance work has now been completed apart from twelve small saplings , and also two rather dangerous trees to be felled by our expert timber feller ( Joe Lawley ) . |
| 7 | Crichlow stood on the finish pontoon with a grin like a piano keyboard while the Canadian team supporters made a din the like of which has never been known before from Canadians . |
| 8 | But when the woman she had given Cara 's card to hove into view her heartbeats steadied , for the person who accompanied her was not male but was a pinafore-clad woman of about the same age who , duster in hand , had obviously been brought away from her cleaning duties . |
| 9 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 10 | Last year an inquest was told how a milkman became suspicious when he noticed milk had not been taken in from the doorstep of the house . |
| 11 | To take a specific example , Lemert 's ( 1958 ) study of cheque forgers found that they had not , typically , associated with other cheque forgers or people favourably disposed towards it ; cheque forgery had not been handed down from some primeval inventor . |
| 12 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 13 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 14 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 15 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 16 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |
| 17 | Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over . |
| 18 | For Moby it was especially important because , as with most pups , he had correctly been kept away from parks and streets for health reasons during that critical early period of socialisation until his vaccination course had taken effect . |
| 19 | The conservative resurgence had not been anticipated when the congress had twice been brought forward from early 1991 . |
| 20 | of places that they can not fill because miners have already been moved there from other pits . |
| 21 | Parliaments thrive best where they have not been created suddenly from scratch , but have evolved from a monarch 's Council of Elders . |
| 22 | Although found in the buying section of this Practice Guide these listings have not been prepared solely from a buyer 's perspective . |
| 23 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |
| 24 | Omissions cases falling within manslaughter by recklessness or gross negligence have also been set apart from cases of positive acts . |
| 25 | Resources , however , have increasingly been directed away from community-based HIV prevention towards mass media campaigning . |
| 26 | The other members of this committee have sometimes been drawn exclusively from the majority group leadership . |