Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 2 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 3 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 4 | Whatever vanishing act had saved her from the goon with the gun , it had left her armed . |
| 5 | In other words the mainstream right has gained nothing from the rejection of the Socialists . |
| 6 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 7 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 8 | He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground . |
| 9 | She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items . |
| 10 | Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark . |
| 11 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 12 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 13 | The first revolution had liberated them from the oppression of the Tsarist regime and reinforced their perennial dream of autonomy … |
| 14 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 15 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 16 | She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent . |
| 17 | The government had dissociated itself from the coalition , but the Islamic and leftist opposition nevertheless capitalized on widespread anti-war feeling . |
| 18 | ‘ Me old man 's got one from the market to burn but you can 'ave it , ’ said Rosa , who had already started with her sixth child . |
| 19 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 20 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 21 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |