Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 2 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 3 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 4 | The few studies that have been undertaken have been carried out from a management perspective in terms of stock management or to quantity overall use of library , materials apart from items recorded in circulation statistics . |
| 5 | On the way south from Shanghai to fly home from Hong Kong , Chris and John visited Guilin , where the scenery seems to have been lifted straight from a willow pattern plate . |
| 6 | Although found in the buying section of this Practice Guide these listings have not been prepared solely from a buyer 's perspective . |
| 7 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 8 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 9 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 10 | Green himself had been turned away from a polling station in the capital , Georgetown , for lack of identity papers ; this prompted his supporters , drawn from slum districts , to go on the rampage , attacking the Commission 's headquarters and that of the PPP and looting and vandalising scores of Indian shops . |
| 11 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 12 | A Garda spokesman said he believed that the drugs had originated in north Africa and had been brought ashore from a yacht . |
| 13 | Dalgliesh found himself wondering if it had been brought back from a school trip to the capital . |
| 14 | I think he must have been put in from a boat . " |
| 15 | And the view — overlooking the couple 's farm , in Bronham , Wiltshire — could easily have been taken straight from a postcard . |
| 16 | The money , £108,000 , would 've been paid out from a mortgage protection policy Stroud and Mr Stokle had taken out when they bought a bungalow together . |