Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] it from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 2 | Maybe , maybe maybe I could do it from the theatre , would , would help |
| 3 | I could read it from the Oxford |
| 4 | I was n't listening , but I could hear it from the dining room . |
| 5 | ‘ No , you did n't have to , you little bitch ; I could see it from the minute we arrived ! |
| 6 | Their snug cottage looked across the road to the ugliest house on the green , the Rectory , which stood at six o'clock , dead opposite the Youngs across Thrush Green , and was consequently a source of continuous irritation to Edward , the architect , who could see it from every south-facing window of his house . |
| 7 | You could smell it from the far side of the room through its Father Christmas wrapping paper . |
| 8 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 9 | The north-east was no place to refine one 's art , but the money was good ( if you could prise it from the agent ) and it widened my working circle ( if you survived . ) |
| 10 | You could keep it from the women , the hidden story of the cells and the cemeteries , of the club and the castor oil bottle . |