Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 2 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 3 | Fewer requests for confirming analysis take place from the conceptual end , but a greater number are initiated through the scheming process which has gradually taken over from the conceptual phase as the main centre of the design work . |
| 4 | TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond . |
| 5 | Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was . |
| 6 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 7 | For instance you see all these big they 'd actually built up from the ground up , they 'd no taking now just the odd . |
| 8 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 9 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 10 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 11 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 14 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 15 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 16 | It was a programme about the ( then ) proposed orbital cities , and even boasted an interview with a very youthful Ewan Famber , who had just passed out from the Tech-Green High College weighed down with honours and acclamations . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 19 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 20 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 21 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 22 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 23 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 24 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 25 | On the day before the April 18 announcement , the President of the Serbian state presidency , Slobodan Milosevic , had declared that Serbia 's own internal affairs secretariat had now taken over from the federal authorities in administering public security in the province . |
| 26 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 27 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 28 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 29 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 30 | There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge . |