Example sentences of "[subord] he have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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1 | He wanted to be two hundred miles away , where he had come from — even in that bleak house in that wasted corner of the sleet-driven estate . |
2 | Davide , after returning from America , had lost his bump of locality for his native place ; when the plan showed a turning one way , he missed it , or found he wanted to walk back where he had come from , or go in another direction altogether . |
3 | When you told me that Stapleton had owned a school in the north of England , I checked on him and where he had come from . |
4 | And , although he had benefited from the publicity surrounding the death and from the cheapness of the star 's replacement , he would also have benefited from Michael Banks 's drawing power , had he survived . |
5 | Once he had withdrawn from the scene their natural antipathy to landlords re-asserted itself . |
6 | If my father could look down on our proceedings , once he had recovered from his astonishment at who was speaking , he would be even more surprised by the political symmetry between the two debates . |
7 | He moved away into the night and Hari watched until he had disappeared from sight , then she closed the door . |
8 | If he had drunk from it , the wounds received in his last dreadful battle against his nephew Mordred would have healed . |
9 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
10 | His head was buried in the sand , hands and feet spread out , as if he had fallen from a great height . ’ |
11 | If he had turned from her and rushed from the room , banging the door after him , she would not have felt half as afraid as when he backed slowly from her , his arm bent and his forefinger wagging at her . |
12 | He still looked as if he had escaped from a major car crash . |
13 | Asked by his doctor if he had recovered from flu , he said that he was fine but one of the clocks was going badly , and would the doctor come and have a look at it as soon as it was possible . |
14 | The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink . |
15 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |
16 | Rayleen looked at him as if he 'd dropped from behind peeling wallpaper . |
17 | Now that was certainly the views of the President of the Board of Trade before er he er returned to the cabinet er at another time and I 'm not sure if he 's departed from these views but I think they 're worthy of some weight . |
18 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
19 | They all seek declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that as a matter of law in the case of a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the Secretary of State is required to set a period for retribution and deterrence which does not exceed the tariff recommended by the judiciary ; ( b ) that the Secretary of State is required by law to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended , and the reasons for that recommendation , and also if he has departed from that recommendation to tell the prisoner his reason for doing so ; ( c ) that the prisoner is entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before the tariff is set , and for this purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State will make his decision which is not in his , the prisoner 's , possession . |
20 | Since he 'd progressed from feet , to wheel-power , |
21 | Since he had split from his screen partner Dean Martin , he had managed to stay popular , playing dumbos with squeaky voices . |
22 | Craig stared into the fire , it had been over a week since he had escaped from the prison , lying in the back of the van , smelling the fresh mouthwatering tang of bread and listening to the clip clop of the horses ’ hooves . |
23 | The enemy horsemen were silhouetted on the southern skyline and Sharpe suspected they must have been trailing him ever since he had emerged from the trees . |
24 | This promised visit to the school , mused Hank , would be his father 's first since he had graduated from it twenty-five years earlier . |
25 | That date was ‘ discovered ’ by early Roman historians , men who also incorporated the well-known Greek legend that the city was founded by Aeneas after he had escaped from Troy . |
26 | There is a story in the Acts of the Apostles which describes how Peter , after he had escaped from prison , went to the house of Mary , the mother of John Mark ( Acts 12:12 ) . |
27 | Having spent himself , he had still found the will and strength to move away after he had withdrawn from her , so that they lay without touching , the space between them painfully eloquent , the gleaming coppery curve of the shoulder that he presented to her even more hurtful . |
28 | One day , soon after he had retired from his legal practice , Hilbert told Lewis he had made a will that was ‘ very much to your advantage ’ . |
29 | They included Henri de Lubac , later to be raised to the rank of cardinal , though only after he had retreated from the more extreme position on the relationship between nature and grace he had adopted in 1946 in his book Surnaturel ; Marie-Dominique Chenu , one of whose books was placed on the Index in 1942 for daring to suggest that Thomas Aquinas ought to be studied against the history of his times ; and Yves Congar , who survived to become one of the leading theologians of Vatican II . |
30 | In the 64th minute Gascoigne performed a similar duty for England but , after he had crossed from the right-hand byline , Newell rose to head past Lekovic , the substitute goalkeeper . |