Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 She has not cut herself off from her parents , however , as this is something which would only have led her to feel guilty and therefore decreased her confidence even further .
2 It has finally won me over from Excel .
3 Neville Southall 's talent has always set him apart from most of his rivals .
4 However many problems there may be , there is a natural human instinct to form relationships all through our lives , although occasionally one will find a recluse — someone who has deliberately cut himself off from human contact .
5 Describing herself as something of a ‘ social victim ’ , she has temporarily torn herself away from urban distractions in favour of time and space at a ‘ country abode ’ , where she is working on material for a second album , due in November .
6 The tabloids really need names and faces to hang their stories on , but the starless void of club culture has n't delivered anything apart from anonymous Djs , bleepy E chants and interchangeable disco divas .
7 What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic .
8 He is if I may take this question of the appointment of the independent members , he has certainly separated himself directly from their appointment by having this regional instrument .
9 Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs .
10 It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead .
11 Its contract expired earlier this month , but last year an independent consultancy recommended California replace its existing system , it had already purchased it outright from G Tec for sixty million dollars .
12 He had not eaten anything apart from the occasional so-called mash since the crops had died and he had only been allowed that because of a special emergency food supplies being sent in from other parts of the country .
13 ‘ I 've just taken her over from a friend who is going abroad .
14 Er no I just think his dad is and they 've just picked it up from their dad , you know .
15 The family had just picked her up from hospital in Oxford and were taking her home to Swindon .
16 But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest .
17 Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital .
18 She was aware that , even standing there , rolling up the sleeves above his tanned , muscular arms as he pondered the problem before him , Ross still possessed that sinister stillness , the iron self-control that had always set him apart from any one else she had ever known .
19 Now that he 'd told her , she could n't understand why she had n't recognised him right from the start — she 'd seen the article , had even marvelled at the way the photographer had managed to capture those dark , brooding eyes .
20 He was rewarded by the happiness which showed in Pam 's eyes , when he told her he was quite sure she had indeed called him back from the brink of death .
21 Ruth , studying for GCSEs next summer , says : ‘ I 've never done anything apart from horses and riding .
22 I do n't know , it 's just got it somewhere from the East somewhere is n't it ?
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