Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have just received from Anne Jessel the 25 splendid custom picks , printed with my name and my own slogan . |
| 2 | May I draw the Economic Secretary 's attention to a study that I have just received from the House of Commons Library 's statistical section ? |
| 3 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
| 4 | ‘ Ma'am , I have just come from the market . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained . |
| 6 | Sir : I have just returned from five weeks in Zimbabwe , mostly at village level , and your leading article ( 6 October ) was right . |
| 7 | ‘ I have just returned from a holiday in Hungary with my six year old son and I feel I must write to thank you . |
| 8 | I have just returned from a visit to Bulgaria , and I thought your readers might like to see their spraying equipment . |
| 9 | I HAVE JUST RETURNED from a trip to Norway , a country I find like an exaggerated version of Scotland — bigger mountains , wider moorland , wilder scenery and more extreme temperatures . |
| 10 | I have just returned from today 's match dazed and confused . |
| 11 | Sir , I have just returned from a full week in Belgrade and would like to seek comment and clarification on the information and knowledge sanctions which are now being imposed on Serbia . |
| 12 | I HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlord , Mr Heathcliff . |
| 13 | I have just returned from an interesting and enjoyable conference on Coastal Zone Management held during a beautiful weekend in Copenhagen . |
| 14 | As I write , I have just returned from this gathering . |
| 15 | Your article on the Zambian food riots was accurate ( NI 189 ) : I have just returned from visiting friends who live on the Zambian Copperbelt and it was a shock to compare the well-provisioned tourist hotels with the half-empty shops in the city of Ndola . |
| 16 | I have just returned from a NATO meeting last week at which we agreed the military strategy that will accompany the strategic concept now agreed , of which Germany is a prominent supporter . |
| 17 | As to the third point ( the reason why the court lacks jurisdiction to review ) , the views of Holt C.J. are supported by the passages I have already quoted from Rex v. Bishop of Ely ( inability to decide on the statutes of the college ‘ of which we are ignorant , and the construction of which has been confided to another forum ’ ) and Ex parte Buller , 1 Jur . |
| 18 | Let me call in as assistant instructor none other than Mr Graham Greene , with the advice I have already mentioned from one of his books of autobiography . |
| 19 | I have already benefited from Vic 's support and ideas to a considerable extent . |
| 20 | The kitchen table I have today came from Aunt Bessie , along with my rocking chair , a brass pan and some pictures . |
| 21 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 22 | I have now slumped from second overall and a possible £3,000 — £5,000 to outside the top ten and looking like winning nothing , I think it is fair to say through no fault of my own , but inadequate pegging . |
| 23 | For the above sub-heading I have deliberately copied from the title of a recent publication by Cecily O'Neill and Alan Lambert ( 1982 ) , for it is a manual offering guidance to teachers in their planning of projects for drama . |
| 24 | I have deliberately refrained from referring to the movement as a ‘ pre-feed ’ roll , as it is commonly termed . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State made one of the worst speeches that I have ever heard from a Minister in the House . |
| 26 | The right hon. Gentleman made the weakest speech in favour of a guillotine motion that I have ever heard from a Leader of the House and that is saying something . |
| 27 | ‘ Brilliant … best speech I have ever heard from a Scottish leader at conference , ’ enthused one MP . |
| 28 | I offer the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) my heartfelt thanks for giving what is almost the first straight answer that I have ever extracted from him . |
| 29 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 30 | ‘ Situations ’ , Elizabeth wrote , ‘ I have sometimes taken from life , as a jumping-off point : but imagining myself into another world , using the eyes of the people I am creating is what my writing has chiefly been about . ’ |