Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elijah has to drag them back from the worship of the heathen fertility gods introduced by Jezebel . |
| 2 | I 've had to build it up from scratch really . ’ |
| 3 | He had also stolen Cranborne School 's prize physicist , Khan , and had offered a free place to Simon Britton , a boy whose mother had had to take him away from Cranborne because of her financial circumstances . |
| 4 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 5 | We 'd go barefoot in the fields and play fairies , and horses and keepers : the horse would have to step in as many cow shits as possible and the keeper would have to clean it up from between their toes . |
| 6 | Storming into the restaurant where the Italian and Miss Maughan 's character were dining , he invented some story about having to keep her away from the paparazzi ( which he probably thinks is the coffee you buy in Venice ) and whisked her off her feet back to his place . |
| 7 | Helen will want the wedding to take place from here , but I 'll have to hold her back from making it into such a big affair that it will take months to prepare . ’ |
| 8 | People without the ready money to buy a necessity of life like a house , who had to borrow it not from an individual with the distasteful label ‘ money-lender ’ , but a non-profit mutual cooperation body called a building society , were respectable . |
| 9 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 10 | You had to chase him off from where you were cordoning off the slip . |
| 11 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing takes make-up off faster than chicken grease so we had to keep them away from that , ’ continues Drexler . |
| 13 | But Eva had to keep them away from him , saying if it was very urgent they could leave a note . |
| 14 | Then she had to hold him back from charging down to challenge Hector 's fledgeling authority at once . |
| 15 | She had to get them away from the rocks that edged the shore like jagged teeth . |
| 16 | ‘ I had to get you away from him and have you close to me . |
| 17 | O i yeah if , if we give a higher weighting to special need then we 've to take it away from somewhere else . |
| 18 | I had to bring her over from Miami today because the stupid cow wo n't fly . |
| 19 | I do n't use models so I really have to work it out from memory or imagination . |
| 20 | I do n't use models so I really have to work it out from memory or imagination . |
| 21 | That 's right you have to keep it away from the face because they 're dangerous are n't they ? |