Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 2 | The plastic weapon has been condemned as tasteless and at least one shop has withdrawn it from sale . |
| 3 | Yet Dr. Elliott is elsewhere in print ( on the back of an Abbey Records LP ) as maintaining as almost certain that Carver composed the superb anonymous 6-Part Mass , ‘ Cantate Domino , ’ intimately related musically to Fera Pessima , which survives in partbooks from Lincluden ( Dr. Elliott has edited it from performance , and declared it ‘ shows more assured technical command ’ than Fere Pessima itself ) ; while the Carver Choirbook itself contains a fine anonymous 3-Part Mass which several scholars have suspected to be genuine Carver — and which is moreover largely in his hand . |
| 4 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 5 | Selling forward means selling the foreign currency today for delivery at the time you expect to receive it from your customer . |
| 6 | Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers . |
| 7 | In part the practical difficulty of withholding tax most of which is deducted at source has prevented it from ever assuming large-scale proportions , while the fact that opposition has in the past tended to focus on specific wars , of which the Vietnam war was the most prominent recent example , ensured that it was usually a relatively transient phenomenon . |
| 8 | Oh it looks lovely , you know the , how the architect has done it from |
| 9 | Dissolves stop it from sucking the liquid back again . |
| 10 | And I want to hear it from you . |
| 11 | Turning back to the landlord , Giles Aplin said , ‘ I already know the name of the man who gave you this watch — but I want to hear it from your lips — and I want the truth . ’ |
| 12 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 13 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 14 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 15 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 16 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 17 | In order to get rid of the whole web of interlinked concepts , myths , wishes and desires , one has to mine it from within . |
| 18 | Little Jitka tried to grab it from Paddy 's hand . |
| 19 | She shot her arm out and tried to grab it from him , but his fingers closed firmly around her wrist and easily held her at bay . |
| 20 | Yes , but I want to send it from town . |
| 21 | He has derived it from his observation of his father . |
| 22 | ‘ You want to reclaim it from the people that have been misused it . |
| 23 | At issue is the FBI 's ability to wiretap in future … the FBI is not only asking the industry to dumb down existing software , it wants to prohibit it from developing new technologies that might interfere with the government 's ability to intercept various oral and electronic communications . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 25 | For example , in France , we have to comply with the French plan comptable , so within a particular row you state the origin of the information , that is , which nominal ledger account you want to get it from — we have a fairly simple account code structure with cost centre account codes — then you say the club name and its account number . |
| 26 | She found it behind the chair and picked it up , but Maggie tried to take it from her . |
| 27 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
| 28 | Rachel 's eyes lit up as she tried to take it from him . |
| 29 | The tragic feature of deaf education , which has bedeviled it from the beginning , is the disagreement among educators about the best method of teaching the deaf and dumb . |
| 30 | I made tea , my ungloved hand sticking to the Trangia when I tried to move it from its snowdrift . |