Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 2 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 3 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 4 | I learned the next song from my four-year-old son Russell whose teacher had adapted it from an older song to help with subtraction . |
| 5 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 6 | Rose was the second generation in it , and she had taken it from a back street operation to a small , high class chain . |