Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 2 | Mr Appleby said : ‘ This is a long-established business with a reputation for quality workmanship which has suffered from a series of bad debts and disputed accounts . ’ |
| 3 | The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age . |
| 4 | As everyone knows who has translated from a foreign language , it is no excuse for a bad translation that the meaning chosen was found in the dictionary ; for the document may be its own dictionary , showing an intention to use words in some special shade of meaning . |
| 5 | But top scorer John Taylor , who has shown disappointing form recently , could make way for Marcus Browning , who has returned from a loan spell with Hereford after scoring six goals in five games . |
| 6 | At the end of the poem Coleridge see himself almost as a shamanic figure who has returned from a prophetic trance , someone whose duty is to spread ‘ the milk of Paradise ’ . |
| 7 | A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time , as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness . |
| 8 | The manager 's hand has been strengthened by the return of striker Steve McManaman , who has recovered from a back injury , and Dane Torben Piechnik , who was on World Cup duty in midweek . |
| 9 | He is replaced by Paul Weston , who has recovered from a neck injury , in the only change from the side which beat Sunderland 46–0 last week . |
| 10 | The 16-year-old English Schools champion , who has recovered from a knee injury , is gradually getting back to her best form and her target is beating her own British record of 42.9 secs recorded at Crystal Palace last season . |
| 11 | The Tyneside star , who has recovered from a groin injury , admitted afterwards : ‘ The Olympic Games seem a long way away . |
| 12 | A traveller who has come from a nearby town , where the Romans have already given out their orders ( low to equal status ) . |
| 13 | Not only has the target now changed but the technique itself has changed from a linear one ( the punch ) to a circular one . |
| 14 | She has recovered from a chest infection which affected her last week after two solid days of filming left her exhausted . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She 's gone from a Scouse-hold to a household name , co-starring in the latest run of the hit TV show The Comedians . |
| 17 | As in that sequence ( 1 — 17 ) , so in this ( 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ) the I is suppressed altogether , the Thou has fallen from a pedestal to the gutter . |
| 18 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 19 | The England flanker showed he has recovered from a rib cartilage injury by playing in Harlequins ' 57-10 victory over Bedford . |
| 20 | Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ? |
| 21 | He has recovered from a nightmare pelvic injury and is now forcing his way into Roker 's Wembley plans . |
| 22 | Already he is delighted with the back-up he has had from a professionally run franchisor . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 25 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 26 | There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position . |
| 27 | I think it 's escaped from a farm . |
| 28 | There are some slight variations in it , and it 's come from a different U S mill and , for example , there are three items at the end which were required and you offered us six millimetres , they 're now six point three five millimetres , which is quarter inch , that 's fine , erm . |