Example sentences of "they have [verb] [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 'd taken control from the parent , and the parents quite readily gave that control to the state , they no longer had parental control |
| 2 | this week its the third round of the coca cola cup … our only survivors are Swindon … they 've got Oldham from the Premier League at the County Ground tomorrow night … kick-off is at seven forty five … |
| 3 | They 've ordered food from the Strathspeld Arms ; the same food the funeral guests would have eaten . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 5 | They had escaped detection from the air , in spite of the large number of vehicles involved , but had had to abandon the tanks which had become hopelessly bogged down in the sand . |
| 6 | In doing so they had met opposition from the authorities . |
| 7 | They had sought help from the marriage counsellor a little late in the day . |
| 8 | Previously they had to remove embers from the long fire-pit to lay on corrugated metal sheets , then embed the breadpans in the cinders and replace the hot sheets over the hole . |
| 9 | When the Civil War broke out in England in the 1640s , it could be taken calmly enough in most of the American colonies because the colonists had no particular desire for changes ; in Maryland the Protestants did want changes , and by 1655 they had taken power from the Catholic minority , though the new government was never completely in control of the situation and Catholics maintained a more satisfactory position than they could have in any other territory under English rule at the time . |
| 10 | They had taken refuge from the insects and the dew when sanity returned , and were lying gazing up at the stars . |
| 11 | Before that they had sold coal from the yard . |
| 12 | The Council recently decided that all such doctors should pass the PLAB test as a precondition of obtaining limited registration unless they have obtained exemption from the test by one of the routes that the council has approved for this purpose . |
| 13 | Many of them had sought counselling from the college chaplain . |