Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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1 | Vern actually looked up from his last bite of bread roll as I came back in . |
2 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
3 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
4 | I am not talking about that kind of quietness ; rather the loneliness of people who feel quite cut off from God , from others , from society . |
5 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
6 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
7 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
8 | I 've just come back from France . |
9 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
10 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
11 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
12 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
13 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
14 | Tell them we 've just come back from that . |
15 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
16 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
17 | I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’ |
18 | Sometimes , you 've just come home from work and your feet are sore and your head aches , but then the music starts playing and away you go . |
19 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
20 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
21 | ‘ We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement . |
22 | ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’ |
23 | Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ? |
24 | ‘ We 've always kept away from humans ! ’ |
25 | Then John Keane came along , the only artist I 've ever taken on from seeing slides . |
26 | We 've deliberately stayed away from the official national trails in England , Scotland and Wales . |
27 | Carl : ‘ No we 've deliberately shied away from doing remixes with Boys Own and so forth , because you 're really asking for a backlash for starters and also so many dance mixes sound really soft , like PWL productions . |
28 | Carl : ‘ No we 've deliberately shied away from doing remixes with Boys Own and so forth , because you 're really asking for a backlash for starters and also so many dance mixes sound really soft , like PWL productions . |
29 | I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot . |
30 | I 've recently moved here from Heymouth ’ |