Example sentences of "had [vb pp] them from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds . |
| 4 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 5 | ‘ I bought them from Mr and Mrs Bumble , who had stolen them from the nurse , who had stolen them from Agnes , the dead girl . |
| 6 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 7 | It was pretty much like the cab of the truck that had brought them from the Store . |
| 8 | They instantly felt less grown up , whereas Minton had encouraged them from the start to tackle imaginative work by giving them articles from Lilliput with the illustration blocked out and the instruction that they were to do their own . |
| 9 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 10 | The first revolution had liberated them from the oppression of the Tsarist regime and reinforced their perennial dream of autonomy … |