Example sentences of "[vb past] it from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He just pinched it from the Services Liaison Officer 's files in Soltau . |
| 32 | Instead of being sawn off in strips like they do , actually carved it from the outside to the centre . |
| 33 | The growth of Sunk Island is intimately linked with the Gylby family who , for almost 200 years leased it from the Crown , embanking it as it increased in size . |
| 34 | Three guys hijacked it from the Company 's yard but I saw then and climbed into the refridgeration unit at the back . |
| 35 | We watched it from the guard-room . |
| 36 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 37 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 38 | ( Apart from these Yiddish songs , Judaism did not really have any modern music of its own , its practitioners — Mendelssohn , Meyerbeer , Rubinstein , Schonberg , for example — all incorporated the best as they saw it from the past . |
| 39 | An old cathedral had a scale when you saw it from the mountain , or the plain , the silhouette . |
| 40 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 41 | Medley is ‘ everywhere infinitely a picture ’ ; Lockleigh , ‘ as they saw it from the gardens , a stout grey pile , of the softest , deepest , most weather-fretted hue , rising from a broad , still moat … a castle in legend ’ , is another ‘ noble picture ’ . |
| 42 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 43 | A pretty unfinished item too when they first dusted it from the vaults , I would imagine , judging by the amount of reconstruction that 's evidently gone into it . |
| 44 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 45 | ‘ She 's a trouble-maker ; I knew it from the beginning , ’ she muttered . |
| 46 | The guy who brought it from the garage would remember very well . |
| 47 | During the years between 1813 and 1830 Serbia , under Miloš , had experienced a social , cultural and economic transformation which brought it from the medieval obscurity of a declining oriental despotism to the threshold of modern European statehood . |
| 48 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 49 | Took it from the captain 's cabin . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ He took it from the gene labs . |
| 51 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 52 | When she took it from the oven she was pleased with it , but later , placing it on the trestle table in the hall where refreshments were to be served , she saw that Sister Dew 's was higher . |
| 53 | He took it from the packing case , staring , thunderstruck . |
| 54 | He took it from the forceps and examined it carefully . |
| 55 | Grant took it from the loft this morning . |
| 56 | I laughed at him but , when he heard footsteps in the corridor , he wrenched it off my neck himself and flung it from the window . |
| 57 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 58 | Despite this , an intrepid few made it from the continent , including examples from France , Holland , although the star of the event was from much further afield — half-way around the world . |
| 59 | He got it from the boys instead . |
| 60 | Oh yes , oh yes , you got it from the chemist . |