Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 2 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
| 3 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 4 | Philosophically it inherited something from the Absolute Idealism of the Hegelians and other nineteenth-century opponents of materialism , thus refusing to think of ‘ reality ’ as distinct from ideas of reality . |
| 5 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |