Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ( 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 ! ) |