Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 2 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 3 | The business lobby has been squealing for everything from accelerated depreciation allowances to a Business Development Board to grant cheap loans . |
| 4 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
| 5 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 6 | The minimum wage policy has been condemned by everyone from The Guardian to Goldman Sachs . |
| 7 | An admirer of Fela Kuti and any ‘ intelligent music ’ , her style has been compared to everything from Jimi Hendrix to Teena Marie . |
| 8 | She 's been compared to everybody from Harriet Wheeler to Liz Cocteau to Madonna and sounds , not like a teenage girl from the wilds of rural Limerick , but like several teenage girls from the wilds of rural Limerick , a heavenly host of exultant angels and three hundred trembling divas singing their battered old hearts out . |
| 9 | I must stress that the equation is not one that Bukharin himself put forward , but has been derived by myself from his set of simple equations for equilibrium conditions . |
| 10 | They may have been suffering with anything from stress-related migraines to pre-menstrual tension . |
| 11 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 12 | As many as 90 per cent of the persons arrested under these powers are released without charge after having been detained for anything from four hours to seven days . |
| 13 | ‘ Thank goodness you 're back ’ said one of the clerks who had been seconded to us from County Hall . |
| 14 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
| 15 | Numerous criticisms have been directed at it from insides and outside feminism . |
| 16 | The SD at Stuttgart recorded a comment , said to be frequently encountered in differing variants : ‘ It 's always claimed that the Führer has been sent to us from God . |
| 17 | Their spores have been nurtured on everything from apple peel to flies ' wings , with no solid results . |
| 18 | I said that we ought to er somebody asked me er from one of the national papers which ought to be put in place there and I did suggest that we ought to have a statue like just been mentioned to somebody from Beeston they 've got a nice man on a bench there . |
| 19 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |
| 20 | Rather neatly , the sale 's top lot , Mrs Johnson 's bureau plat by Leleu , which sold on a commission bid at £1.1. million ( $2 million ; estimate in excess of £750,000 ) , had been purchased by her from Christie 's for £300,000 in 1981 , where it had been consigned from Meikleour , having formed part of the original collection . |
| 21 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |