Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [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 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 4 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 5 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 6 | and erm I had jaundice as well which I 'd contracted from Jim |
| 7 | Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere . |
| 8 | All of which I 'd learnt from Churchill , of course . |
| 9 | In the end I threw my yoghurt pot full of glue at her and said the ‘ f ’ word I 'd learnt from Auntie . |
| 10 | I 'd refrained from advertising any more for fear that we would be overwhelmed . |
| 11 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 12 | I wedged it in the carrier bag with the papers I 'd taken from Salome 's briefcase and then we went in search of the veggie noshery recommended by Fenella 's nice policeman . |
| 13 | Never having been one to look an unguarded telephone in the mouth , I made another call to the number on the Exhilarator brochure I 'd taken from Salome 's case . |
| 14 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 15 | But he only had about a couple of hours to do it in — after I 'd rung from Hannover . |
| 16 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 17 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 18 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 19 | From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old . |
| 20 | There I dampened some paper towels and wiped the flour off the goodies I 'd removed from Flaxperson . |
| 21 | The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague . |
| 22 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 23 | This is thanks to the help I have received from my wife , my children , and a large number of other people and organizations . |
| 24 | Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right . |
| 25 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 26 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 27 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 28 | I had moved from his shoulder , so he got up and retrieved my hat . |
| 29 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 30 | I would never again speak of sin , certainly not to Lili , for one of the messages I had gathered from her speech was that it would bore her . |