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Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it from [art] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) .
2	Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said .
3	An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative .
4	You could n't have risked people finding out you 'd stolen it from a woman you 'd raped during the Russian campaign .
5	I thought she 'd fetched it from the bedroom .
6	We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent .
7	I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat .
8	Julia felt worse and worse all the next day , but managed to hide it from the others .
9	My first department , and I went in and I got a lot of feedback from my deputy , and the branch manager to a certain extent , and I did get it from the district manager as well .
10	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 .
11	He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia .
12	The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars .
13	Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight .
14	He had seen it from the outside .
15	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 .
16	Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm .
17	This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans .
18	She just replied that she had got it from the cupboard . ’
19	Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry .
20	The poor little cat had never got over its terror of flying , and Mildred always had to prise it from the broomstick whenever she arrived anywhere .
21	Greg had brought it from the side-table for her .
22	The SOCO drew the key from her pocket with a smile , saying she had borrowed it from the office manager .
23	And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home .
24	She had created it from the chaos , she was its God .
25	So I had to take it from the telesales side to get the appointment to get in the door to do a demonstration and then to do the after sales .
26	’ You had to take it from the inspector , you ca n't answer back .
27	then use your length of cloth as though you had purchased it from a bolt of fabric in a shop .
28	Captain Kinloch had inherited the estate of Kinloch in Strathmore from his younger brother , John , who had purchased it from the proceeds of a fortune made as a sugar planter in Jamaica , and had died in 1770 .
29	We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina .