Example sentences of "had [verb] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her eccentricity and the fact that they could n't help laughing at her , the Girls would readily acknowledge that she gave them as much , if not more , affection than they had received from their own parents . |
| 2 | Martinho said the malais had very quickly stopped shooting at them and that most of the casualties had come from our own fire . |
| 3 | You did n't have to tell Claire , Annabel or me about Nanny 's cold hands ; we had suffered from them most of our lives , but what that had to do with pastry was what Father described as a ‘ female mystery ’ . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 5 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |
| 6 | His dark hair , trimmed by Moxie , was curly and glossy , his face with high cheek bones and small nose and small sensuous mouth and dark blue eyes , had resumed its glowing charm ; and when his friends ( Barry Titmus , for instance , Jerry Locke , Sidney Brett , and Ned Oliver who had recovered from his own ailments ) came to see him , roars of laughter could be heard from above . |
| 7 | And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden . |
| 8 | He regarded Lexandro musingly as a brother might a sister whose honour he must protect — a sentiment which Lexandro had purged from his own soul , though he recognized the symptoms . |
| 9 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 10 | His mouth tightened but he released her wrist , eyes glittering , and she ran up the stairs , into her bedroom , slammed the door , locked it , then knew with a terrible deep certainty that she had run from her own desire . |
| 11 | Accordingly an injunction against the defendant fulfilling any contract with any person named on a card index which he had obtained from his former employer was discharged , the court saying it was bound to limit the period to one year at the longest . |