Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 2 | A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing . |
| 3 | I think I have changed from a front-foot player in the 2nds to a back-foot player in the first team — through necessity really . ’ |
| 4 | I have proceeded from a narrow premiss : the case of Corbett v. Corbett . |
| 5 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 6 | A post morteum revealled she 'd died from a large fracture of the skull , soon after she 'd been born . |
| 7 | Erm it looks like you 've gone from a lower cost one to a higher cost one . |
| 8 | As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other . |
| 9 | Rugs in jewel shades of emerald and topaz were thrown over the terracotta-tiled floor and the curtains , like the sofa and armchair covers , she had sewn from a heavy cream fabric . |
| 10 | She wanted to be comforted with closeness , to forget everything in such immediate intimacy , to be told that it was all right , that the world was real , and she had woken from a bad , bad dream … |
| 11 | A post-mortem examination disclosed she had died from a single knife wound , which had severed the artery . |
| 12 | You owe that to the extraordinary talents which you have received from a beneficent God ; and now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician , utterly forgotten by the world , or as a famous Kapellmeister , of whom posterity will read … |
| 13 | We 've gone from a more-or-less carefree kind of life of our twenties , in which the car , the flat and the girlfriend/ boyfriend were about the only real constituents — to a world in which everyone wants a piece of our time , in which we have to make decisions ( fundamental , trivial , pregnant with import ) every three minutes . |
| 14 | We had emerged from a private wall into the crazy world of summer skiers , no doubt fresh from their BMWs in the car park below , and bemused by the intrusion of this odd , dilapidated pair of chastened alpinists . |
| 15 | We sometimes write down the stories and one summer with other children we put on a play we had adapted from a Russian folktale in Folktales of Many Lands . |
| 16 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 17 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 18 | Certainly some of the female science students felt that they had benefited from a single-sex education . |
| 19 | In a lifetime they have gone from a self-assured majority to a beleaguered minority , strangely distanced from the city that has grown up around them . |
| 20 | Yes , I would think they have formed from a pre-mythago pattern in your own mind … ’ |
| 21 | The claim form asks Policyholders if they have suffered from a similar illness previously . |
| 22 | Muscles only actually grow after they have recovered from a hard training session . |
| 23 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 24 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |
| 25 | Will one of them tumble to the heretical truth , that they have sprung from a remote , earlier form of life , rooted in organic , carbon chemistry , rather than the silicon-based electronic principles of their own bodies ? |
| 26 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |
| 27 | There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position . |
| 28 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 29 | By the second year , it had moved from a sectoral base to a country base , to help achieve cross-sector policy objectives . |
| 30 | It had fallen from a high point of $90 per tonne to as low as $30 per tonne . |