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

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1 Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size .
2 The modem newspaper horoscope has largely taken over from dream-books , although they are still published , and still draw largely on the works of Artemidorus ( or claim to ) .
3 The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here .
4 Parents : When they play into wrong hands What can you do if you take an instant dislike to the friend your daughter or son has just brought home from school ?
5 When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’
6 One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping .
7 ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’
8 Pierre Berton , who wrote the books , has just got back from Vancouver .
9 May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London .
10 There is a considerable shake-up at the Northern Ireland Office , where Sir Patrick Mayhew has already taken over from Mr Peter Brooke as Secretary of State .
11 Instead new development has gradually gravitated away from North Shields and is now much nearer to Whitley Bay [ then a separate local authority ] .
12 Zambia has also suffered economically from destabilization and economic sabotage first by the white Rhodesian regime and then by South Africa , and from the knock-on effects of the wars in neighbouring Angola and Mozambique .
13 A Norwegian company has also benefited recently from SEL 's expertise .
14 Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science .
15 Hornby , founded in 1908 , has now moved on from trains and cars to sell dolls and video games .
16 No changes … a new skipper though Shaun Taylor has officially taken over from Ross Maclaren …
17 Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about .
18 That was er I 'd just got back from work .
19 Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress .
20 The commodore , having just tacked in from Pin Mill , says that while he recognises the accomplishment of an ancient mariner there in teaching a grey parrot to recite the complete works of Shakespeare in Urdu , and could see that this might help international relations in some way , he is far from certain this was the sort of thing Mr Major had in mind .
21 And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry .
22 But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that .
23 The natural inhabitants of the Galapagos then , must have somehow strayed across from South America , and colonised the archipelago by chance .
24 Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here .
25 Having recently came back from canoeing in Austria where canoeists , fishermen and landowners all enjoy what nature has provided , it certainly dates what canoeists have to put up with in parts of this country .
26 The rest of the so-called queen 's bishops had all suffered acutely from Edward 's tyranny , and even some of the others had been the targets of at least his threats .
27 Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon.
28 His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court .
29 ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . )
30 I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered .
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