Example sentences of "had [be] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been apart from Irina on many occasions — too many — but a permanent separation was something he still had to get used to . |
| 2 | City had been ahead from the 12th minute when full-back Hill was left unmarked at a Brennan corner and took advantage with a crisp header . |
| 3 | Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off . |
| 4 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 5 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 6 | He had been away from his wife and family for nearly two weeks now . |
| 7 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 8 | She had been away from work for eight years and her second child was starting school when she saw an advertisement for a part-time market research executive . |
| 9 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 10 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 11 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |
| 12 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 13 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 14 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 15 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 16 | The visit had been far from successful , for Adam had sulked when offered the four-ten , the so-called ‘ lady 's gun ’ . |
| 17 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 18 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |
| 19 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 20 | In later years , Roderick confided that he had been far from happy with the title , for the book certainly was not " elementary " . |
| 21 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 22 | Earlier in the day , Jeffrey had been far from happy to learn that the Scotland seven to be chosen from a pool of ten — Hong Kong have increased from nine to remain consistent with the World Cup format — would have around five hours between their ties tomorrow . |
| 23 | The expansion also meant a round of promotions for the stalwarts who had been in from the beginning . |
| 24 | Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole . |
| 25 | He had been back from his travels for a while , staying first in London then at Lochgair , while he tried to work out what to do with his life . |
| 26 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |
| 27 | Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member . |