Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hump was closed in 1985 and all shunting carried out from the east end . |
| 2 | Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors . |
| 3 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 4 | The train having come in from , and just going er forward well I do n't know erm before back to er er to . |
| 5 | The other , Bath and England B star Audley Lumsden , is just lucky to have his chance , having come back from an horrific , career-threatening broken neck . |
| 6 | Pat , Sheila and John 's brother , Terence , arrived , having driven up from Essex . |
| 7 | Not having set off from directly overhead Gransden ( a practice advisable in murky conditions ) we are slightly south of track . |
| 8 | I was not sure that I had been baptized ( having shrunk back from the outstretched hand with water in my late teens , believing baptism a piece of medieval nonsense ) , while wanting to be a member of the church . |
| 9 | ‘ Was there never sign of a boat having put over from Parfois by night ? |
| 10 | World No 8 Wilkinsonfrom Kirkby-in-Ashfield , went down 9-7 to stablemate Martin Clark , having fought back from 8-4 . |
| 11 | The next morning he reported to Sir Dick White , then head of MI6 ( having taken over from Sir John Sinclair after the Crabb fiasco — see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 12 | Having taken over from Michael Barton as captain , Surridge led boldly , the sum of his character and his various skills proving formidable even if , paradoxically , he would never have been considered a batsman or bowler of the highest class . |
| 13 | ‘ There were four major air disasters last year , all four planes involved having taken off from airports which were regarded as having maximum security . |