Example sentences of "[adv] they have [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 Romanians are very well aware of how much they have inherited from the Ceauşescu regime and how difficult it is , with the best will in the world , to purge the moral degradation from their souls .
2 I must leave it to economists to say how much they have learnt from his account , or where they would disagree with it .
3 Longman have made a very good start to the year and erm , and so they 've progressed from day one , making last year I expect to continue .
4 The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings .
5 She did n't know how far they had come from Gloucester , but surely after an hour at a steady gallop they had put enough distance between themselves and the castle to halt for a few minutes .
6 And displacement , how far they 've got from the start line ?
7 Originally they had come from the Dartmoor Pony Sale as weanlings the previous autumn and had spent the winter in a large stable .
8 But I was surprised by their looks , as they came through the airlock — enough to keep me from being puzzled , then , about how they had crossed from their pod to my ship without space suits .
9 It had happened before , when they had descended from her apartment , but then the presence of another person had diluted the effect to an extent where she was able to ignore it .
10 I can tell when they have come from Goldsmiths ' .
11 Loosen the grub screws and carefully ease out the cables , taking careful note of where they 've come from , and which wires are grouped together .
12 When people move-when they travel-they look where they 've come from , not where they 're going .
13 in France they have to say where they 've come from .
14 You mentioned earlier on that that perhaps er like with Guy Fawkes , there 's a lot of things that come from the past , from our history and we lose Perhaps we lose a bit of sight about where they 've come from .
15 In between the various tests there was a delay of two or three days when we would be left on tenterhooks in case we had failed ; every afternoon people would be told to pack their bags and would be deposited at Aubagne station to take a train back to where they had come from .
16 I had enquiries made as to the origins of the zombis , but no one knew where they had come from .
17 The Pole Star and the Southern Cross gave early sailors some idea of where they had come from and the direction they needed to take .
18 But wherever they have come from , I have no doubt that , as winter approaches once more , we shall again be standing , frozen to the marrow , on that blasted heath — waiting for the weather to improve to ‘ dreadful ’ .
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