Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it from a pattern |
| 2 | ‘ I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet . |
| 3 | I got it from a guy called Reuben , he was living in Wales and my sister Louise bought me a Joe Johnson with Rip trucks from him for £60 . |
| 4 | I took it from a restaurant this morning . |
| 5 | I do it from a sense of duty for my country . |
| 6 | I take it from a detective story of the 1930s written by J.C . |
| 7 | Astron , weighing 3½ tonnes , is in a highly elliptical orbit which takes it from a height of 2000 km up to 200 000 km , half way to the Moon . |
| 8 | I mean , I knew what was going to happen when I started the exercise , but if you contemplate it from a teacher 's point of view , if I go out and commit suicide or break down you 'll know why , wo n't you . |
| 9 | Football has been transformed for most of those who follow it from a Saturday afternoon activity in all weathers to a Saturday night home entertainment . |
| 10 | those who omitted it from a dictionary of fables were less than scholarly . |
| 11 | ‘ And me buying it from a stall in the flea market only last week . ’ |
| 12 | Ben can do it because … well , he 's a man , and one expects it from a man . |
| 13 | Who did they rent it from a farmer or something ? |
| 14 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 15 | He got it from a friend of his , a soldier in the Scots Guards . |
| 16 | He widened it from a training for future priests of the Church of England to a course which anyone might wish to read for their education . |
| 17 | I despise the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ since it demotes it from a work inspiring extreme reverence to just another large painting . |
| 18 | Eventually he pulled it from a pile of papers . |
| 19 | And he took it from a man . |
| 20 | He bought it from a chap called John Dowson , who later married one of the Miss Sayers from West New Houses . |
| 21 | ‘ He stole it from a girl , ’ she explained quickly , before she could feel intimidated . |