Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got into the flat-bottomed boat and tried to push it away from the bank but the pole stuck in the mud and the boat was too heavy for her to move . |
| 2 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 3 | If the letter had been burnt in the presence of all the members of the family immediately after being read , then the copy could only have been sent to him before they received it , by the person who went to pick it up from the rubbish skip . |
| 4 | He had a full bomb load , but managed to level the plane long enough for his crew to bail out , then he managed to steer it away from the town and crash into a nearby field . |
| 5 | People without the ready money to buy a necessity of life like a house , who had to borrow it not from an individual with the distasteful label ‘ money-lender ’ , but a non-profit mutual cooperation body called a building society , were respectable . |
| 6 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 7 | A past boyfriend had brought it back from a holiday near Genoa . |
| 8 | They told the lieutenant over at the hotel , but he wanted to hear it directly from the company . |