Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 2 | Aisha 's gold chain which I 'd carried away from her house hidden among my clothes was in my hands one moment and the next on the counter in the Oxford Street goldsmith 's . |
| 3 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 4 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 5 | His answer was very clever : no one could really account for their movements but once again Benjamin and I had drunk deeply from the cup of failure . |
| 6 | Instead , in rebellion against the illusions of the stage and films , I had run away from home and joined the Marines . |
| 7 | I had run away from Sir Tom because I needed to find a bedrock of truth on which to build a life . |
| 8 | Something about the bat itself , the resined or saddlesoaped grain of its surface , offered unwelcome clarity , reminding me why I had stayed away from Scheldt 's and the sweet black chicks and their bargain blowjobs . |
| 9 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 10 | I had gone there from Florida because my father had pleaded with me to go . |
| 11 | Because I had come straight from college , it was really difficult for me to tolerate that sort of behaviour , so I managed to er convince the workers to form a union . |
| 12 | I had put in about two hours detecting time by now and these were the only two non-ferrous items I had found apart from some scrap lead . |
| 13 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 14 | I 've — I 've run away from home you see and … ’ |
| 15 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 16 | Every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 17 | And every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 18 | I 've broken away from that whole junkie crowd . |
| 19 | I 've gotten away from … |
| 20 | Although the work of the group is documented elsewhere , I feel I 've gained considerably from the hidden agenda . |
| 21 | film which I 've bought already from the pharmacy . |
| 22 | But I 've benefited enormously from having a stable , normal home life . |
| 23 | I 've come straight from the hospital , and now I 'm on my way to St Mary 's , where I 'm due at five . |
| 24 | I 've come straight from the calving and I did n't even get a cup of tea when I 'd finished . |
| 25 | Do you know , I , I 've come I 've come away from Luton , Stansted at times , Cambridge especially when I 've come down , perhaps half a dozen dinners . |
| 26 | It 's the first time I 've come away from an exhibition thinking that the exhibition as such was stupid . |
| 27 | Sometimes when I 've come home from the pictures and I let myself in , it 's so quiet I 'd nearly talk to the statues for company . ’ |
| 28 | In a case like that as I have said right from the outset , this is a conflict of interest for me . |
| 29 | I have said before from the Dispatch Box that the attitude of other parties in the House to that Act is a matter for them rather than for me . |
| 30 | Is the Leader of the House aware that , in the past four days , since we returned from the Christmas recess , I have heard more from Conservative Members about Labour party policy than I have heard on the national executive committee in 12 months ? |