Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun] from [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Business in Scotland has received a boost from our creation of Scottish Enterprise and the Local Enterprise Companies . |
| 2 | Mrs Mandela will appear in court on the 24th of September ; the attorney general says he has received an undertaking from her lawyer that she will cooperate with the investigation and she will not be taken into custody . |
| 3 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 4 | He has got a tan from his Christmas holiday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The difference between these nodes is the degree to which the reader thinks the author has provided a text from which some meaning is recoverable . |
| 7 | This reads as follows : If a settlor who has taken a loan from his settlement and has been charged to tax under the legislation repays the loan the tax previously charged is not of course repaid . |
| 8 | Ms Robins said : ‘ It has been a challenge and everybody has learned a lot from it . |
| 9 | If my right hon. and learned Friend believes in cause and effect , will he assure the House that he has learnt a lesson from it and that not only investment in but the subsidy to British Rail will be maintained to provide the service that people expect from the railways as we approach the end of the century ? |
| 10 | I knew I 'd had a letter from him then , because it was the last time we were apart before he was called up . ’ |
| 11 | Clause 33(1) of the Finance ( No. 2 ) Bill 1975 provided that the employee was to be treated , on receipt of a voucher , as having received an emolument from his employment of an amount ‘ equal to the expense incurred by the person providing the voucher in or in connection with the provision of the voucher and the money , goods or services for which it is capable of being exchanged . ’ |
| 12 | You may have received a letter from them early in 1984 asking for up to date details . |
| 13 | ‘ If they were spirits , or rogue hewkin babes , they could have plucked an image from your mind , like a berry from a bush . |
| 14 | In order to claim disablement and the related benefits you will have to obtain a Form from your local Social Security Office . |
| 15 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 16 | That a village should be created , rather than grow from an organic root , such as a river ford , or a crossing of forest paths , would surely have drawn a mot from him . |
| 17 | You could easily have borrowed a book from your local library and come to the conclusion that the specification of the 5086 was perfectly state-of-the art — whereas in fact it is now looking really rather old fashioned . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , despite all the money flowing in from concerts , pupils and publications , Mozart was indeed in debt again by the year 's end and was having to beg a loan from his publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister — for whom his next string quartet , K. 499 ( the ‘ Hoffmeister ’ ) , was written , perhaps in gratitude . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 've received a letter from your Health Promotion erm Liaison Officer , can I ask you if this was sent on your behalf ? ’ |
| 23 | One was an elderly , rather exhausted man who was unable to produce either assistant or wife and had to borrow a lady from his neighbour for the purpose . |
| 24 | Ron Barton , who had received a bollocking from his editor ( ‘ where was yer , you prick ? ’ ) had been given instructions to raise the offer to 10,000 . |
| 25 | As Hunter says , ‘ his mind had received a shock from which it never fully recovered ’ . |
| 26 | The root cause for her worry , for her looking back instead of forward , was her dear brother Sebastian and how , a week ago , as casual as could be , considering his name was on the mortgage agreement the same as hers , she had received a postcard from him . |
| 27 | She had offered her immaculately powdered cheek to each man and had received a kiss from everyone . |
| 28 | ‘ Would n't it be lovely if Terry was one of them ? ’ a colleague said , but Sarah said quietly that she had received a letter from him and knew when he would arrive . |
| 29 | A government spokesman said Professor Guido de Marco , Foreign Minister , had received a letter from his Libyan counterpart informing him that the two bomb suspects had asked to be tried in Malta , and asking Malta to accede to this request . |
| 30 | On another occasion I had received a letter from my mother — not usually given to handing out advice : |