Example sentences of "[vb past] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 2 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 3 | Although the public as a whole accepted that loyalist extremists had destroyed the Alliance Party headquarters , a number of local people , including some caught in the blast of the explosion , doubted it from the beginning . |
| 4 | The modernization of the Meadowell estate , which transformed it from flats to terraced houses and dramatically reduced the density of occupation , was a consequence of the availability of central government assistance intended to stimulate employment opportunities in the construction industry as a corrective to general problems of unemployment in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | If it occurred to Ruth — and how could it possibly occur to Mrs Peterson — that there might be a good reason for this , she dismissed it from her mind at once . |
| 6 | The defendant may however have considered the possibility that the victim did not understand the nature of the act but have negligently ( given his own capacities ) dismissed it from his mind , although the risk was an obvious one . |
| 7 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 8 | AN EVEN more unlikely winner , Neighbours was bought in from Australia and only took off when Michael Grade moved it from lunch hour to teatime because his daughter , Alison , asked him to . |
| 9 | He expanded the revels office , and moved it from Warwick Inn to the dissolved monastery of Blackfriars , where he himself owned a considerable property . |
| 10 | Jack snatched it from him and tore it in two . |
| 11 | A wooden Scotty-dog with a waggly , leather jointed body nipped my finger , and he snatched it from me and hurled it on to the fire , hitting it repeatedly with the poker until it disintegrated . |
| 12 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 13 | Impatiently , Jezrael pushed the canopy back and an icy blast of wind snatched it from her grasp . |
| 14 | Fei Yen snatched it from him impatiently , moving past him as if he were not there , making her way towards the East Palace . |
| 15 | He snatched it from my hand , read it and returned it without looking at me . |
| 16 | He reached out for the book , but before Melissa could give it to him , Gebrec snatched it from her . |
| 17 | A fat hand shot out from the covers and snatched it from me . |
| 18 | Ranulf snatched it from me . |
| 19 | With a slow thoughtful smile he moved it back towards her and she snatched it from his hand . |
| 20 | When its flapping had started to irritate me , I snatched it from him and saw that it was ruled like a timetable . |
| 21 | He drew out a piece of parchment from beneath his cloak and Cranston almost snatched it from his hand . |
| 22 | When she tackled him in the wood , he produced the gun to frighten her off but she wrested it from him and shot him . |
| 23 | The booms , which were due to be removed yesterday absorbed the oil spillage and stopped it from flowing downstream . |
| 24 | The few Marxists who devoted serious attention to the problem of nationality and nationalism — above all , Otto Bauer and Karl Renner — also approached it from a class standpoint . |
| 25 | The idea came in nineteen ninety two , the early part of nineteen ninety two er from Doctor Frank er who was er sitting on the Race Training Committee who approached it from the point of view we need to obviously broaden the triangle on the competitive side . |
| 26 | The resemblance could be particularly close if breeders were installing some trait that allowed the crop to thrive in a new habitat , or one that shielded it from parasites or diseases . |
| 27 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 28 | The Committee had been appointed to consider the Foreign Office only and , although they heard a considerable amount of evidence about rebuilding the War Department as part of the denigration of Pennethorne , they specifically excluded it from their Report . |
| 29 | By 1974 , the third Press Commission excluded it from its tables and statistics . |
| 30 | … seeks to find out whether , and to what degree , man has during his long tenure of the earth , changed it from its hypothetical pristine condition , for as Yi Fu Tuan ( 1971 ) has put it : ‘ The fact of diminishing nature and of human ubiquity is now obvious ’ . |