Example sentences of "[verb] it from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billie lay there , imagining Adam with that smart-arse grin across his face , as he watched the girl abuse his body , lick it from toe to top . |
| 2 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 3 | Those who have not inherited their money , unlike the Queen , Sally Burton and Linda McCartney , seem to have earned it from sex . |
| 4 | If you ca n't remember it , do n't copy it : look at it again , and try again to write it from memory . |
| 5 | Alternatively you can buy it from Vacation Work Publications , . |
| 6 | AN EVEN more unlikely winner , Neighbours was bought in from Australia and only took off when Michael Grade moved it from lunch hour to teatime because his daughter , Alison , asked him to . |
| 7 | We have not yet reached the point at which mere characterisation of a claim as a claim in public law is sufficient to exclude it from consideration by the ordinary courts : to permit this would be to create a dual system of law with the rigidity and procedural hardship for plaintiffs which it was the purpose of the recent reforms to remove : ’ Davy v. Spelthorne Borough Council [ 1984 ] A.C. 262 , 276 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 8 | Cover-up — a card is placed in the tray , the child studies the word beneath it then covers it and tries to spell it from memory , using the cubes . |
| 9 | nodding his head , bobbing it from side to side , achingly conscious of how stupid he must look , " Yup , looks like wine to me . " |
| 10 | At Stanmer , the earlier Pelhams created a well-balanced ‘ Palladian ’ house in the 1720s ; in order to preserve a sense of proper grandeur , the village was moved further north in the downland valley to hide it from view . |
| 11 | Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 14 | The traffic queue into London stretched back miles , for a sewer had collapsed in the centre of Wandsworth and gangs of workmen were tearing up the shattered road , apparently rebuilding it from scratch . |
| 15 | I doubt whether we can afford it , I doubt whether , I think the problems are so immense , er what really means is down I think , tearing down most of their industry and rebuilding it from scratch . |
| 16 | To learn to juggle , take one ball and practise tossing it from hand to hand in an easy arc . |
| 17 | It is a strange sensation , but many sense it from time to time : a consuming desire to part with money . |
| 18 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |
| 19 | Burning fossil fuel in power stations to split it from water is daft , though water or wind power might be long-term alternatives . |
| 20 | A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells . |
| 21 | They shared a cigarette , passing it from mouth to mouth . |
| 22 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 23 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 24 | The European Commission agreed not to claim back a DM175m ( $111m ) loan from Klöckner-Werke , a German steel and engineering group , saving it from bankruptcy . |
| 25 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 26 | He had resisted all ideas of mass emigration and enforced complete isolation on the warren , thereby almost certainly saving it from extinction . |
| 27 | The criminals find their way round something and then the , then the alarm companies stop it from happening . |
| 28 | For the electronically minded , the easiest method is to obtain a 25 Kohm volume control from a radio spares shop , mount this in a metal box to screen it from hum pick-up , and connect it into the audio dub line . |
| 29 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 30 | If bad weather prevented it from hunting at these times it would starve . |