Example sentences of "[vb past] it from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 2 | Although the public as a whole accepted that loyalist extremists had destroyed the Alliance Party headquarters , a number of local people , including some caught in the blast of the explosion , doubted it from the beginning . |
| 3 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 4 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 5 | The idea came in nineteen ninety two , the early part of nineteen ninety two er from Doctor Frank er who was er sitting on the Race Training Committee who approached it from the point of view we need to obviously broaden the triangle on the competitive side . |
| 6 | As he spoke , he took a kerchief from his pouch , dampened it from the flask and started gently to wipe her face . |
| 7 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 8 | Charlotte lifted it from the row and together they read the note on the back . |
| 9 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 10 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 11 | Taking a cooking bowl from the side he part filled it from the water jar and set it down on the ring . |
| 12 | She filled it from the larder and the fridge . |
| 13 | Dr Neil picked up his glass , filled it from the bottle , waved the bottle at her , and asked , ‘ Do liberated American girls ever drink spirits , McAllister ? |
| 14 | He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me . |
| 15 | The Portuguese who ruled the coastal areas of the island captured it from the King of Kandy three times between 1505 and 1656 . |
| 16 | To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 . |
| 17 | " I fetched it from the boatyard office . " |
| 18 | That one of Selby 's you know it was fine until they put an extension in just er a key station as soon as they did that this one started acting up , so he said it 's only since we did that , he said it happened the day after we put that in , I said okay , disconnected it , still did it , disconnected it at the , end here , still did it , erased it from the program so it did n't even know it existed , still did it |
| 19 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 20 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 21 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 22 | The contents of the paper apparently horrified some ministers and , under some pressure , Mrs Thatcher withdrew it from the Cabinet agenda . |
| 23 | Taking care not to damage the fish , Yanto withdrew it from the trap . |
| 24 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 25 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 26 | She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when someone threw it from the bucket . |
| 27 | He unspooled it , ripped it from the plastic , then rolled it in his palms before dropping it into an ashtray . |
| 28 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 29 | ‘ We virtually rebuilt it from the inside . ’ |
| 30 | Having discounted that source , Allen next heard it from the horse 's mouth . |