Example sentences of "[pers pn] have got [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all |
| 3 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 4 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
| 5 | She 's got back from er , Tunisia . |
| 6 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 7 | Again , analysis of the situation can help : ‘ We 've got away from what I wanted to discuss — can we go back to it ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 've got away from Barbs , ’ said Pam . |
| 9 | I thought we had got away from the ‘ Where 's Chapman 's head ? |
| 10 | This is an important change and I am glad that we have got away from the odious and patronising attitude of so many local education authorities — particularly Labour local education authorities — that say that one can not trust parents with objective information about how their children 's schools are doing . |
| 11 | Just when she thought they 'd got away from it , change and disruption had caught up with them again . |
| 12 | So it 's a distance they 've got away from the start . |
| 13 | This is afterwards , when he has got up from the couch , when he 's making a date for the next appointment and putting on his overcoat in the hall , returning to his ordinary guarded self before he walks out on to the street . |
| 14 | Ashton had shouted one last thing at him , but Steven had been too far away , breathing deeply , an expression of triumph on his face , He 'd got away from them . |
| 15 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 16 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |