Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 2 | Some channels may commission work from independent producers ; but there is often a preference for either making it yourself , or importing it from afar . |
| 3 | Or stopping it from rotting the furniture . |
| 4 | Next she considered the potatoes : in the past she had always cooked them in their skins , but recently it had been suggested that potato skins , if not carcinogenic , were yet harmful to the system , perforating the bowel or preventing it from absorbing the vital vitamins . |
| 5 | Better that than learning it from my visitors or this evening 's paper , I suppose they thought . |
| 6 | With hindsight the RHA would have attempted to follow the advice of Mezey on this issue and would have sought , as far as possible , change from within the institutions rather than imposing it from without . |
| 7 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 8 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It made her think of bath night at Lyra Street ; of the ritual carrying-in of the tub and filling it from pans and kettles set to boil on bright red coals . |
| 11 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
| 12 | Then followed a resolution naming the London committee ‘ The Veterinary College , London ’ , and separating it from its parent , the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 13 | If the bird keeps struggling , it will be clawed and bitten repeatedly by its captor , but if it lies still the cat may then make the mistake of putting it down on the ground and releasing it from its jaws . |
| 14 | It is a bit like trying to describe to a blind person what is a horse and distinguishing it from a bull . |
| 15 | Marx argued that the former might lead , through unemployment , to working class unrest and the latter would , in tying up capital and removing it from the circulation of capital , reduce the rate of profits made in production . |
| 16 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 17 | For she had taken her mind from his marauding hands and , with a low guttural cry , he had succeeded in stripping off her top and flinging it from them into the dark recesses of the room . |
| 18 | They had learned the finer points from a freebooter at Dover , later buying their own streamlined cutter and running it from Folkestone to the French coast , dealing in brandy and fine lace . |
| 19 | ‘ Hit it , ’ he said , seizing el grip with a painful vice and swinging it from side to side . |
| 20 | It is just a question of sitting down with people like Roy Evans and taking it from there . ’ |
| 21 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh God , it 's going to be a terrible place ! ’ cries Howard to his fellow-guests around the Chases ' dinner table , holding his head and rocking it from side to side in humorous despair . |
| 23 | The huer 's job , after announcing the sighting of the shoal , was to guide his own boat to the fish , signalling East or West by removing his coat and waving it from side to side and , when the boat was on top of the shoal , by placing his coat on his telescope and holding it aloft . |
| 24 | She moved her arm behind her back , and the metal claw responded simultaneously , grasping the air line and plucking it from its housing in the back of the suit . |
| 25 | As announced in Pravda , the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) , on April 24 , it insisted that stabilizing the country and extricating it from its present crisis was inconceivable without a " cardinal increase in the role of the republics " . |
| 26 | The way that most invertebrate and mixed systems are set up , with intricate rockwork and powerful water movement , makes it very difficult to spot uneaten food particles , and the various scavengers are vital in picking this surplus up , and preventing it from decaying and fouling the tank . |
| 27 | Hedges also obstruct farm machinery , rob crops of food and water and shade the crop , producing uneven growth and preventing it from drying out at harvest . |
| 28 | ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’ |
| 29 | One problem that a lot of knitters have , to start with , is that they find it difficult to free the weaving yarn from the sinker plate when changing it from one side of the sinker plate to the other . |