Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hair I had watched from above had become disturbed when I lifted her , so that it shaded the line of her left cheek . |
| 2 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 3 | erm I 'm very sad to be leaving Oxford , I 've very much enjoyed working here , and it 's been good to work for a council with such a high commitment to H I V , and to fighting Aids , and erm I very much the support I 've had from the committee and I hope it will continue erm in this way . |
| 4 | ‘ I know from the messages of support I have received from those in the arts world and elsewhere how much your leadership , interest and enthusiasm will be missed . |
| 5 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 6 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 7 | My usual script looks like demented knitting , but among my manuscripts I am still surprised to find poem drafts and diary entries in neat italic calligraphy , painstakingly produced with a special calligraphic pen , or ‘ disguised ’ and back-sloping hands , or the ‘ progressive ’ styles I had copied from my art students in Corsham . |
| 8 | During the past three months I have purchased from the Institute two publications . |
| 9 | If he 's glaringly out , I 'll then use the template I 've made from the bass and snare samples , quantise that and get him to play cymbals and hi-hat again on top . |
| 10 | These were much the best performances I have heard from him , and say a lot for the state of Horndean , Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies , from whom the Festival Chorus were drawn . |
| 11 | a nice little term I 've nicked from my driving instructor |
| 12 | He gave me one , and I folded the cheque carefully into a spill and lit the cigarette with the flame I had obtained from the gas-fire . |
| 13 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 14 | Of all things most precious to her , it was the wedding ring she had received from Nader . |
| 15 | Donna remembered with sorrow the number of humiliations she had endured from her in school , and the thought of exposing the contents of the parcel she was carrying to such a merciless judge unnerved her . |
| 16 | She asked whether it was the same Capron who was in the photograph she had borrowed from Tatyana Nowak , and who Marek had been to see . |
| 17 | You might be able to do the odd one but I do n't think that you 've got the time , I mean bear in mind you 've gone from four to three to two there 's two of you now supervising all of us if you tell me you 've got spare time then great , and you want to do one or two equally great , however unless you tell me to the contrary |
| 18 | This necklace , she said , picking up another , this was the last piece she had bought from him . |
| 19 | All persons ( or nearly so ) to whom we have been introduced have endeavoured to promote our views , and here I must not forget to mention the great kindness we have received from Sir John and Lady Franklin in every way . |
| 20 | For the women 's movement now this is one of the most important issues we have to deal with — our relationships with each other and the eradication of all the oppressions we have inherited from capitalist patriarchy . |
| 21 | The word workfare is a term we have imported from America , the America , where if you are unemployed , homeless , you 're a scrounger , a drop-out a no-good , something less than human . |
| 22 | If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done . |
| 23 | Inside 12 months we 've gone from being an old side to having some very encouraging youngsters . ’ |
| 24 | When Lady Macbeth welcomes Duncan , the fulsome insincerity of her verse is by now unmistakable to us : Yet , while feigning gratitude she is also expressing exactly the reasons why she ought to feel gratitude : The unusual and affected word ‘ hermits ’ points up her insincerity , while the content of the speech establishes the good they have received from Duncan . |
| 25 | Her pink cheeks bore testimony to the scrubbing they had endured from Dr Mackenzie 's Arsenical Soap ( as used by Madame Patti , Ellaline Tenriss , etc . ) . |
| 26 | They used the technique of research they had inherited from their predecessors . |
| 27 | He loitered , untroubled but curious , for they were no small company , and by the line of their march they had come from Ruthyn . |
| 28 | how much feedback they had had from the recipients ( the governors , the LEA panel ) ; |
| 29 | Perhaps unsurprisingly , considering the patronage they have enjoyed from Clint & Co , they 're dead ringers for the Poppies . |
| 30 | Beside it on a table burned a candle , the source of the light they had seen from the garden . |