Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room .
2 The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October .
3 The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership .
4 This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved .
5 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 .
6 And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home .
7 Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me .
8 After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy .
9 He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground .
10 I had to isolate her from the rest . ’
11 For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ .
12 It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat .
13 Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice .
14 He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia .
15 Deborah Ford , 29 , said later that her husband had pushed her from the path of the shark .
16 Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum .
17 In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 .
18 It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach .
19 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 .
20 The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars .
21 Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight .
22 He had seen it from the outside .
23 Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo .
24 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 .
25 Whatever vanishing act had saved her from the goon with the gun , it had left her armed .
26 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 .
27 They had detached themselves from the torrent of peoples that in prehistory had poured out of China onto the countless islands of the Pacific and , settling the eastern coastal strip of the Indochina peninsula , they had named their country Nam Viet — Land of the Southern Viet People .
28 They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds .
29 He had to identify himself from the pavement .
30 Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm .
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