Example sentences of "[vb pp] it from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
5 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
6 | He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end . |