Example sentences of "have fled from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she 'd fled from his passivity , from his ease beneath the spike of her beauty . |
| 2 | They have sought to damage the interests of people legitimately seeking political asylum , having fled from oppression , who if they returned to their own countries would face further oppression and possibly death . |
| 3 | Joe , looking dumbly at him as he stood in the hall , saw a man whose youth seemed to have fled from him . |
| 4 | He is said to have been deprived of the royal household and nobles with the counsel and consent of all his people , and to have fled from Bamburgh with only a few companions , which would suggest an almost outright rejection . |
| 5 | According to sources from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , 500,000 refugees were thought to have fled from the conflict in Liberia to the neighbouring countries — some 300,000 to Guinea , 120,000 to Côte d'Ivoire and 80,000 to Sierra Leone . |
| 6 | The West German club TTC Juelich said that Crisan , 27 , had fled from his homeland and joined them . |
| 7 | The West German club TTC Juelich said that Crisan , 27 , had fled from his homeland and joined them . |
| 8 | Molly Picon was born on June 1 , 1898 , in New York , where her parents had fled from an impending pogrom . |
| 9 | By December , 245,000 had fled from the West Bank and Gaza Strip across the Jordan , 116,000 had fled from the Golan further into Syria , and 11,000 had left Gaza for Egypt . |
| 10 | By December , 245,000 had fled from the West Bank and Gaza Strip across the Jordan , 116,000 had fled from the Golan further into Syria , and 11,000 had left Gaza for Egypt . |
| 11 | In charge was a vivacious Viennese lady who had fled from danger , and who now put her outstanding skills in child welfare to good account . |
| 12 | Like the child who long before had fled from the schoolmaster 's house at Ottery , Coleridge in his flight to the dragoons was escaping from intolerable external pressures , from the certain disapproval of his family , and from emotions within himself he seemed unable to control . |
| 13 | They housed , apart from the indigenous Scottish families , Jewish immigrants from Russia and eastern Europe who had fled from the pogroms endemic to these lands ; and thousands of Irish families who had likewise fled , not from murderous Jew-baiters , but from the potato famine of the 1880s . |
| 14 | He and a friend had fled from Vienna over the border into Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | And Rickards had fled from London . |
| 16 | His wife Debra , 26 , had fled from the blazing house in her nightclothes crying : ‘ Help my babies . ’ |
| 17 | And this revealed he had fled from Ford Open Prison in Sussex in 1978 — while serving three years for conspiracy to steal and forgery . |
| 18 | According to the rules established by Lanfranc for refugee inhabitants of nunneries who had fled from the Normans but had not taken monastic vows , Gunhilda was eligible for marriage . |
| 19 | Miriam , unable to endure this harrowing sight a moment longer , had fled from the tiger house . |
| 20 | There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return . |
| 21 | She found those who had fled from Re 's anger in the desert and killed very many of them , thus gaining the name of Sekhmet , the lioness goddess of war , with whom she is here identified . |
| 22 | They demanded that the Shah , who had fled from Iran and who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA , should be sent back for trial before the hostages were set free . |
| 23 | Even Pedro had fled from her . |
| 24 | He might call her McAllister , but since she had fled from him she had become Sally-Anne again . |
| 25 | Moniba had fled from Liberia in September 1990 , after three months in hiding following attempts by him and others to persuade Doe to step down . |
| 26 | An estimated 20,000 southerners had fled from Parakou after one person was killed and 15 were reportedly wounded in election-day clashes with local people backing Kerekou . |
| 27 | Aid workers in Freetown were quoted as estimating that between 3,000 and 5,000 Sierra Leonean civilians and Liberian refugees had been killed by the NPFL since incursions began in March [ see p. 38136 ] , and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva was quoted on May 4 as saying that 10,000 people had fled from the border area . |
| 28 | Over 200,000 people had fled from the Itang refugee camp near Gambela in Ethiopia , on May 26 . |
| 29 | The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22 that those who had fled from countries where rebel forces had attempted to coerce them into military service were not entitled to political asylum . |
| 30 | The ruling was made in the case of Jairo Jonathan Elias Zacarias who had fled from Guatemala in 1987 after guerrillas had attempted forcibly to recruit him for military service . |