Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] from the " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been there from the beginning , that 's we know
2 City had been ahead from the 12th minute when full-back Hill was left unmarked at a Brennan corner and took advantage with a crisp header .
3 Now she knew that Fernando was in contact with Maria Luisa and probably had been right from the off .
4 Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much .
5 The expansion also meant a round of promotions for the stalwarts who had been in from the beginning .
6 Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole .
7 Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member .
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