Example sentences of "they have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For instance you see all these big they 'd actually built up from the ground up , they 'd no taking now just the odd . |
| 3 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They assemble in colonies many thousand strong and nest in long holes that they have either taken over from rabbits or dug for themselves . |