Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got it from the telly . |
| 2 | " I fetched it from the boatyard office . " |
| 3 | ‘ She 's a trouble-maker ; I knew it from the beginning , ’ she muttered . |
| 4 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 5 | Oh yes , oh yes , you got it from the chemist . |
| 6 | I think it was a mongrel she got it from the animal rescue |
| 7 | She filled it from the larder and the fridge . |
| 8 | When she took it from the oven she was pleased with it , but later , placing it on the trestle table in the hall where refreshments were to be served , she saw that Sister Dew 's was higher . |
| 9 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 10 | An old cathedral had a scale when you saw it from the mountain , or the plain , the silhouette . |
| 11 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 12 | When the Guardian arrived half an hour later , she plucked it from the letter-box with impatient hands . |
| 13 | We watched it from the guard-room . |
| 14 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 15 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 16 | After all , they removed it from the custody of its owner and , prima facie , they should bear the responsibility for any damage which occurs between that time and the owner getting it back . |
| 17 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 18 | He took it from the packing case , staring , thunderstruck . |
| 19 | ‘ He took it from the gene labs . |
| 20 | Every weekend he gave Mossman the baker a shilling for his cart and every Saturday afternoon he pushed it from the bakery to the square in the High Street and harangued the passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war . |
| 21 | He plucked it from the carpet . |