Example sentences of "they have [adv] [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing had gone on so long they 'd actually retired from nursing . |
| 2 | The debonair style they both preferred for handling issues gave or grim was part of an improbable legacy from P. G. Wodehouse , whose inter-war writings they had both admired from boyhood on . |
| 3 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 4 | Under the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in Syria , they were treated with contempt , abandoned to the poverty of the hill villages in southern Lebanon where they had originally come from Mount Lebanon . |
| 5 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |