Example sentences of "[verb] have [vb pp] a [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far radicalism both in defining lawyers as controllers of individual clients and in defining them as controllers because of the ideological discourse which they sell has reached a position from which only negative statements can be made : lawyers do n't help , they control ; professionalism does not protect clients , it defeats them . |
| 2 | Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ? |
| 3 | Cranog Jones is said to have run a pipe from the garage through a specially- drilled hole in their bedroom wall . |
| 4 | On 5 June he is said to have ignored a request from a Catholic merchant for protection for his family in the Mansion House ; and he stirred himself only when the Bank of England was reported to be in the mob 's sights . |
| 5 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 6 | The certainty of going had lifted a weight from Fiver . |
| 7 | The Krays was the centre of some controversy when it was released earlier on this year , partly because the brothers were rumoured to have made a profit from it . |
| 8 | The kidnappers were believed to have demanded a ransom from Unocal , which operated a power plant in Laguna Province and had reportedly received demands from the NPA to pay US$5,000,000 in " revolutionary taxes " . |