Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple pressure of calls has taken us from one to five lines over the years and the only reason we have stuck at five is because the office is simply too small to take any more . |
| 2 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 3 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 4 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 5 | It is hard to resist the conclusion that this new attitude was the result of the company in which the exiles had found themselves from 1097 to 1100 . |
| 6 | It is not restitutionary because these defendants have received nothing from the investors and so have nothing that they can restore . |
| 7 | It shows that the street has been given to the car and attempts have been made to adjust the child : on finding that the child can not be adjusted parents have removed it from the street . |
| 8 | The trusts have to finance themselves from contracts made with district health authorities , fund-holding GPs ( see below ) or private insurance companies . |
| 9 | From a methodological point of view , Bortoni-Ricardo 's work is particularly interesting , because in developing these two types of index it extends the application of the network variable beyond an analysis of small closeknit groups to an analysis of the extent to which individuals have detached themselves from such groups . |
| 10 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 11 | The glee with which an upward blip in house prices has been greeted hardly suggests that Britons have weaned themselves from the inflation habit . |
| 12 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 13 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 14 | Before this the slowmoving dancers in their wide spreading tutus and veiled arms have hidden it from view . |
| 15 | There were no absolute outside standards , so standards had to generate themselves from within , relativistically . |
| 16 | Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills . |
| 17 | The settlers had claimed legal ownership of the houses in October and had made efforts to move in to the Silwan sector at that time , but the police had prevented them from doing so after the Attorney General , Yosef Harish , had recommended that they be barred from the properties on security considerations . |
| 18 | Her children had to love her from a distance — |
| 19 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 20 | The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently . |
| 21 | Not that the early issues had learnt anything from the underground . |
| 22 | And because men have distanced themselves from ‘ the weaker sex ’ over the ages , setting themselves up as superior , it must be unbearably humiliating to need and desire women so much . |
| 23 | But Burmese dissidents in the area , including a representative of Aung San Suu Kyi 's own party , said yesterday that Thai local authorities had barred them from meeting the Nobel winners . |
| 24 | Dick had probably intended to toss it into the quarry , but it had fallen short and the weight of the handles had kept it from slipping over . |
| 25 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |
| 26 | Psychoanalysts suggest that men 's gender identity is very fragile because , within typical child-rearing practices , girls can identify with their primary care-taker while boys have to separate themselves from their mother in order to achieve and assert their masculinity . |
| 27 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 28 | Coun Bob Brady , the council 's housing committee chairman , said : ‘ Financial restrictions have prevented us from building council houses for some time . |
| 29 | Though according to Sue Brodie , who plays full back for Scotland , the women have suffered everything from dislocated shoulders to broken ankles in league matches . |
| 30 | Chefs have banned it from their kitchens , farmers see it as a threat to the family farm , and the Swiss have voted on it ( amongst many other issues admittedly ) . |