Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touring with them against the top countries , ‘ not hiding , getting thrashed from time to time , but facing the top teams , learning all the time , and accepting that if we 're going to stay as a competitive group we 've got to be as far ahead of the others as possible ’ . |
| 2 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 3 | Having marched from Inverness along the side of Loch Ness he waited for a day in the hope that more pack-horses would turn up , but when none were forthcoming left behind most of his supplies and provisions , though his men were still heavily burdened as they crossed the mountains in search of the enemy ; roads in the Highlands , and local sources of supply , were almost non-existent . |
| 4 | The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May . |
| 5 | It is also the case that the great majority of students entering advanced courses in art and design have come from foundation courses , a few having come from school with GCE A level passes in art . |
| 6 | On 8 April the British cruiser London arrived , having come from Gibraltar in twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | His complacency remained unshaken when , on Thursday 17 January 1746 , having advanced from Edinburgh towards Stirling he found that the rebels , far from fleeing , had moved forward to meet him at Falkirk , a small town about ten miles [ 16 km ] to the south-east . |
| 8 | Having escaped from detention with several of his supporters , he proclaimed himself commander-in-chief of the Kaba camp and demanded the release of other officers arrested after the May 27 incident . |
| 9 | Eight patients were ‘ reformed ’ drinkers having abstained from alcohol for a duration ranging from two months to several years and five of this group had biopsy proven cirrhosis . |
| 10 | There may be a problem , however , with the steering relay having seized from lack of use . |
| 11 | Southey had reached the city shortly before , having walked from Oxford with George Burnett , a Balliol friend who had been persuaded to join the Pantisocrats . |
| 12 | The Norfolk worsted manufacture , unique in having spread from Norwich to an arable farming district , had always remained dispersed in small units without great clothiers and had never recovered from its recession in the previous century . |
| 13 | George said that Rose Lipman , having climbed from slop-girl at Kelly 's Melodrama Theatre in Paradise Street to manager of the repertory company , did n't hold with casual labour . |
| 14 | Since that distant time the Runefangs have served the counts of the Empire , having passed from ruler to ruler until the present day . |
| 15 | Having emigrated from Germany with most of her school some five years earlier , she and her team of staff and older children knew a thing or two about the traumas of young people settling in a strange country . |
| 16 | Having returned from Rome at the end of 468 , he was suddenly consecrated bishop of Clermont in 470 . |
| 17 | The newspaper La Prensa , which had been closed down in February 1988 [ see p. 35818 ] , reopened on Jan. 7 , 1990 , its editor , Roberto Eisenmann , having returned from exile on Jan. 5 . |
| 18 | In 776/1374–5 , having returned from Egypt after a four-year stay , he visited Constantinople ; and in 779/1377–8 he was appointed as a teacher in Shiraz by Shah Shuja . |
| 19 | And interest in watching Commons TV declined over time ; the numbers who said they would be or were ‘ very interested ’ in watching dropped from 24% before televising started to 10% after three months , with a corresponding rise in those who said they were ‘ not at all interested ’ from 18% to 30% . |