Example sentences of "[verb] it from [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | But because of natural bodies we know not the construction , but seek it from the effects , there lies no demonstration of what the causes be we seek for , but only of what they may be . |
| 62 | ‘ There is no dispute about the land unless a claim is made … compensation for those who claim it for their land and receive it from the authorities is calculated according to the value of the property in 1973 plus the difference in the index of inflation together with four per cent interest . ’ |
| 63 | Whatever is necessary they have , they receive it from the community , and the magistrate takes care that no one receives more than he deserves . ’ |
| 64 | She fell to her knees by the head of her youngest son , cradled it , yet did not lift it from the snow . |
| 65 | 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 . |
| 66 | To seek to eliminate it from the environment is impossible ; a fact acknowledged by the Minister for Agriculture and his advisers . |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | Not because I could n't have had a holiday only that er we had loads of milk so we had to go and fetch it from the farms and you got ta have somebody to take it out . |
| 69 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 70 | Well in one sense I , I would like to see Jane addressing it , because she can do it from a non-divisional point of view . |
| 71 | So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up . |
| 72 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 73 | I guess he did n't trust us to let him do it from the nick . |
| 74 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 75 | Maybe , maybe maybe I could do it from the theatre , would , would help |
| 76 | It 's not cos you have n't got ta do it from the outside it 's from the inside . |
| 77 | No you do n't do it from the outside of the ring . |
| 78 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 79 | Oh yeah , you 'll probably do it from the video actually |
| 80 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 81 | Oh , I was writing it from the board actually . |
| 82 | yeah I think , I do n't , she must lock it from the inside window back through |
| 83 | Circulate it from the , I have n't , I 'm afraid I have n't had any . |
| 84 | But we will subsidise it from the jumble sale , so Amy , I hope you have a good jumble sale ! |
| 85 | Water splashes from a faucet into a jerrican , and when it fills the boy sluggishly replaces it from a line of empty ones . |
| 86 | There 's always lots of action tho' football is a plus , We 've never been to Wembley but we 've seen it from a bus . |
| 87 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 88 | He had seen it from the outside . |
| 89 | I 've seen it from the outside it 's quite erm |
| 90 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |