Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] it from [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
2 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
3 | I learned the next song from my four-year-old son Russell whose teacher had adapted it from an older song to help with subtraction . |
4 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
5 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
6 | Greg had brought it from the side-table for her . |
7 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |