Example sentences of "they have [verb] a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah erm wait a minute we got a letter from this morning to say that erm wait a minute , erm they 'd had a communication from Mr |
| 2 | No patient said that they had noticed a click from their ribs but this question was not routinely asked . |
| 3 | By now , about 1030 , they needed reinforcement , even though they had lodged a foothold from their beach headquarters in spite of meeting fiercer opposition than expected : some 50 men of a crack regiment were spending Christmas in the town . |
| 4 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 5 | They had had a message from Windsor , and were on their way to arrest Joseph Shill . |
| 6 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 7 | They have taken a selection from their Cordillera , Appalachian , and Outback lines , adapted the harness to suit a women 's figure and called them the Nanda Devi range . |
| 8 | They are more able to relax and enjoy the time with their baby when they have had a break from the everyday routine at home ; others find that having their own income gives them independence — and fewer money worries . |