Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And disappointment in your parents , too , for keeping it from you . ’ |
| 2 | There was silence for a moment , then he said huskily , ‘ Leonora — look , there 's no easy way to say this , but I hope you 're not full of some quixotic notion about keeping it from me if you find out you 're pregnant . ’ |
| 3 | But Shallis argues that this is hardly surprising , because its very terms of thought are such as to exclude it from the content of all discussion , at the very outset . |
| 4 | On another occasion Pauline Jordan cashed a Giro cheque for £330 after stealing it from her mother 's house , the court heard . |
| 5 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
| 6 | In the " Lady Chatterley " case Mr Justice Byrne instructed his jury to consider the total effect of the work after reading it from cover to cover . |
| 7 | Researchers also managed to trap the ethyl radical , C 2 H 5 , another classic organic intermediate , after preparing it from a precursor containing carbon dioxide . |
| 8 | It 's not cos you have n't got ta do it from the outside it 's from the inside . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 11 | ’ 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 . |
| 12 | This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 13 | Our system of criminal justice demands that the government seeking to punish an individual produce the evidence by its own independent labours , rather than by the cruel , simple expedient of compelling it from his own mouth . |
| 14 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 15 | and sort of run it from there . |
| 16 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 17 | Of buying it from you |
| 18 | of buying it from you |
| 19 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 20 | The term conversation is widely used , in a non-technical sense , and people seem capable of distinguishing it from other kinds of talk . |
| 21 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 22 | For instance , in the squatting ‘ demoiselle ’ Picasso had dislocated and distended the various parts of the body in an attempt to explain it as fully as possible , without the limitations of viewing it from a single , stationary position . |
| 23 | The price would depend generally on milk quality and also the cost of collecting it from farms . |
| 24 | But one can also think of style as manner irrespective of such external connections , by identifying distinctive patterns of language use in a text simply as a means of differentiating it from other texts , on the general assumption that such distinctive patterns must be a part of the text 's overall effect . |
| 25 | The character has a base 20% chance each round of dragging it from the skeleton 's grasp . |
| 26 | Else he 'd of took it from that way . |
| 27 | Mm I think I but Sarah did it at work , she did it sort of plaited it from here round |
| 28 | Some Slovenian bankers pointed out that it would have made better sense to have carried out a ‘ consolidation ’ , which would have preserved more of the assets of the firm than the policy of attacking it from all sides ( Politika , 1 October 1987 ) . |
| 29 | We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division . |
| 30 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |