Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 10 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 11 | Instead , in rebellion against the illusions of the stage and films , I had run away from home and joined the Marines . |
| 12 | I had run away from Sir Tom because I needed to find a bedrock of truth on which to build a life . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had gone there from Florida because my father had pleaded with me to go . |
| 16 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 17 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 18 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 19 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 20 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 23 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | I 've — I 've run away from home you see and … ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 've broken away from that whole junkie crowd . |