Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from him " in BNC.

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1 He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help .
2 The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there .
3 Relieved that he had apparently not betrayed himself and yet wishing that she had not moved away from him , David told her about the history of the old Jewish quarter of Venice .
4 He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory .
5 When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him .
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