Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 2 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 3 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 4 | The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague . |
| 5 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 8 | I slipped into the great four-poster bed , whispered a few French endearments I had learnt from a wench and set to with a will . |
| 9 | A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , master , ’ I neighed , ‘ I 've come from a country on the other side of the world . |
| 11 | " I 've come from a bit farther than Chelsea tonight , " |
| 12 | I 've come from a village background actually , and homelessness was n't a major problem in our villages because a lot of these sorts of characters somehow were adopted by the community . |
| 13 | The authors he found most helpful in this ‘ interim ’ period were all mystics , or figures who emphasized spirit over matter — MacDonald , William Ralph Inge , Jacob Boehme , whose quasi-theosophical , semi-astrological De Signatura Rerum ( The Signatures of Things ) gave him ‘ about the biggest shaking up I 've got from a book , since I first read Phantastes ’ . |
| 14 | I have selected from a wealth of alternatives : |
| 15 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 16 | I think I have changed from a front-foot player in the 2nds to a back-foot player in the first team — through necessity really . ’ |
| 17 | The one thing I have bought from a tin of biscuits . |
| 18 | I have proceeded from a narrow premiss : the case of Corbett v. Corbett . |
| 19 | She has recovered from a chest infection which affected her last week after two solid days of filming left her exhausted . |
| 20 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 21 | She 'd progressed from a rather lowly start to her present place on the team with IMP just at the time when the true importance of the fuel companies and their technicians was beginning to be appreciated by the general public , or at least those aficionados who followed the world of Grand Prix racing . |
| 22 | She 'd died from a blow to her neck . |
| 23 | A post morteum revealled she 'd died from a large fracture of the skull , soon after she 'd been born . |
| 24 | So I walked up to her , looked into her eyes , and close to she was as beautiful and warm as she 'd seemed from a distance . |
| 25 | Erm it looks like you 've gone from a lower cost one to a higher cost one . |
| 26 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |
| 27 | Alan was in London talking business with his agent , Audrey Ellison , when she just happened to mention a letter she had received from a friend in Budapest about a young pianist who was about to be hauled into the Hungarian army to do his national service . |
| 28 | Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen . |
| 29 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 30 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |