Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness .
2 The pilot stayed with his aircraft and steered it away from the school and bravely died with it to save others .
3 A second group of miners loaded the loose coal onto a moving conveyor which took it away from the coal face .
4 An empirical study based on the preferences of the median would still be valid ; and there would not be any need in equilibrium situations to introduce party political dummy variables ( a party whose ideology took it away from the median would not be victorious in an election and its policies would not be observed ) .
5 What they had not bargained for was the prejudice of the trial judge , Lord Grant , who , as Nicky relates in his recently published memoirs , made it plain from the outset that he believed , as the police believed , that Meehan was guilty .
6 You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’
7 He kicked it away from the bars , then continued to boot it as it shambled deeper into the hut .
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