Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] from a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I stared stupidly at the bag in my hand as if it had just been dropped there from a helicopter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although found in the buying section of this Practice Guide these listings have not been prepared solely from a buyer 's perspective . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A Garda spokesman said he believed that the drugs had originated in north Africa and had been brought ashore from a yacht . |
| 6 | And the view — overlooking the couple 's farm , in Bronham , Wiltshire — could easily have been taken straight from a postcard . |