Example sentences of "[vb pp] it from the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 2 | A long thin garden of lawn and ornamental cypresses , enclosed by shrubs and then by iron railings , separated it from the boulevard between the cemetery and the church . |
| 3 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 4 | Greg had brought it from the side-table for her . |
| 5 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |
| 6 | If we did not know this before , we have learned it from the actions of parents in Dewsbury who , at the beginning of the school year 1987/8 , refused to allow their children to attend a local primary school that was predominantly Muslim . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |