Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 2 | Although opinion polls still show the centre-right 's candidate , Mr Fernando Collor , leading by five million votes , the difference between them has dropped from 13 to six points in one week . |
| 3 | Following the welcome change in Kenya 's constitution towards a multi-party democracy , and in view of the unhappy news from Kenya yesterday of the repression of demonstrations in Nairobi , will the Minister not only advise that country on the international standards of multi-party democracy , which she has ennunciated from the Dispatch Box before , but suggest that , in order to disarm such demonstrations , it is time that the Government start a dialogue with the Opposition on both the timing and ground rules for an election ? |
| 4 | Then she sees Trotter 's purse lying open with the money she has cashed from the county welfare . |
| 5 | But Winnie has a secret , too , one she has kept from her daughter for all these years . |
| 6 | Anyway I asked her if she 'd heard from your dad , and she has heard from your dad apparently on Friday he went to the consultant |
| 7 | She has moved from Arrow , and is just the sort of author who can benefit from a change of publisher , for she has been slipping a little recently . |
| 8 | TENNIS widow Tatum O'Neal has acquired a string of handsome admirers , now she has split from husband John McEnroe . |
| 9 | For the past year , she has suffered from incontinence , but her kind next-door neighbour has done regular washing for her . |
| 10 | Mr Perren tells me : ‘ By happy coincidence , on the very same day Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was in Bath on a film set too — the Merchant Ivory movie of The Remains Of The Day which she has scripted from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel . ’ |
| 11 | She has gone from having no attention whatsoever , to having lots of it , and she just does n't know how to cope with it . |
| 12 | Fiona admits she still does not know how to check the performance of the fund and that the only information she has received from the company is the annual report and accounts . |
| 13 | She has recovered from a chest infection which affected her last week after two solid days of filming left her exhausted . |
| 14 | It is therefore difficult to convince a farm worker 's wife , who may have to walk two miles down a muddy lane in the pouring rain to catch the Mondays and Thursdays only ( except Bank Holidays ) under-threat-of-closure bus to do her weekly shopping , that she has benefited from any improvement in the provision of rural amenities , when her access to them is increasingly denied . |
| 15 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 16 | She has learned from her suffering and believes always in the power of her homesite . |
| 17 | She has slept in her clothes as usual , so she reaches at once for her birch-bark pail ( podoinik ) with its removable lid and spout for pouring out the milk once she has returned from milking her cow , or two cows if she is rich . |
| 18 | ‘ She has come from the cool north . ’ |
| 19 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 20 | There has been the feeling that the emotional outpourings she has drawn from her panellists have been inspired largely by the ‘ glamour ’ of television . |
| 21 | He dreams of Isabella , languidly exploring the Alhambra , the great jewel she has seized from Boabdil , last of the Nasrids . |
| 22 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 23 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 24 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 25 | Now that he has retired from full time teaching , Guisborough-based John Brelstaff is able to devote more of his time to painting and has been able to resume the work left off when he left the Slade in the mid-Fifties . |
| 26 | But the guts he has shown in resisting government plans for the body he has chaired from 1983 are far from academic . |
| 27 | However , wrote Goldberg , turning the page and tearing it slightly in his eagerness to go on , my son is rather short-sighted , something he has inherited from his mother , and recently , during a school trip to Dieppe , he dropped his glasses and cracked one of the lenses . |
| 28 | Should the Secretary of State decide not to give effect to any of the recommendations he has received from the Council , he is required to publish a statement explaining his reasons . |
| 29 | On three previous occasions , in 1977 , 1981 and 1987 , his requests were denied , but new hopes have been raised by the support and encouragement which he has received from Dr Rita Suessmuth , President of the Bundestag , who must carry a majority among 640 members of the legislative body for ‘ Wrapped Reichstag ’ to be realised . |
| 30 | In similarly insincere terms he thanks Duncan for the honours he has received from him : These speeches are subtly calculated by Shakespeare , for their insincerity is obvious to us ( the affected metaphors , the flabby repetitions ) but not to the recipients . |