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 | 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 . |
9 | ’ 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
13 | and sort of run it from there . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Of buying it from you |
16 | of buying it from you |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The term conversation is widely used , in a non-technical sense , and people seem capable of distinguishing it from other kinds of talk . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The price would depend generally on milk quality and also the cost of collecting it from farms . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The character has a base 20% chance each round of dragging it from the skeleton 's grasp . |
24 | Else he 'd of took it from that way . |
25 | Mm I think I but Sarah did it at work , she did it sort of plaited it from here round |
26 | 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 ) . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Her mother said : ‘ The trouble we had in keeping it from you , Jessica . |
30 | He pushed the wadding carefully into the cartridge before taking it from Benny and placing it on the garden wall . |