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

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1 It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds .
2 In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept .
3 It has already spread out from its core business , and is spreading wider still , from software into the information business itself .
4 The burden of debt has also declined slightly from its peak 1981 levels , but as a result of curtailed imports rather than increased hard currency earnings .
5 The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions .
6 ‘ At least Mike has n't run away from his past .
7 We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before .
8 It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession .
9 He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help .
10 The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there .
11 Relieved that he had apparently not betrayed himself and yet wishing that she had not moved away from him , David told her about the history of the old Jewish quarter of Venice .
12 He also cited the fact that they had not profited personally from their conduct , that they had " a record of long and distinguished service " , and that all had already in terms of emotional anguish and damaged careers paid a price which was " grossly disproportionate to any misdeeds or errors of judgement they might have committed " .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory .
16 He had just turned away from us and read a book .
17 I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened .
18 Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry .
19 When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him .
20 Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before .
21 In fact , if he had n't looked up from his coffee and spotted her in the doorway , Caroline might have returned to her room and waited until she was sure he 'd gone .
22 She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father .
23 Commentary : The common size statements merely confirm what we have already suggested above from our initial analysis , i.e. the gross profit has declined with a marked decline in 1988 and this has been accompanied by an increase in interest over the last years .
24 I have not heard back from you since then , and I wondered if you could please confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ?
25 Matilda looked right back into the flashing eyes of this infuriated female giant and said with total calmness , ‘ I have not moved away from my desk , Miss Trunchbull , since the lesson began .
26 Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story .
27 HAPPY campers Ron and Olive Saunders have just returned home from their 166th holiday at Butlins .
28 ‘ It takes two to make a baby … but men have always run away from their responsibilities .
29 Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes .
30 I I have n't contacted only from what who er Granville said so I picked up the communion the straight away and then I could n't and she 's coming on the or that Sunday the first
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