Example sentences of "[vb past] it from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few Marxists who devoted serious attention to the problem of nationality and nationalism — above all , Otto Bauer and Karl Renner — also approached it from a class standpoint . |
| 2 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 3 | Edward rented it from a woman who lived abroad , a woman he had never met , and it suited him perfectly . |
| 4 | He widened it from a training for future priests of the Church of England to a course which anyone might wish to read for their education . |
| 5 | The 21-year-old soldier , of Portsmouth , adapted it from a verse by US poet Mary Fry . |
| 6 | This is supposedly a well known fact in certain circles.I heard it from a segment of this circle . |
| 7 | Eventually he pulled it from a pile of papers . |
| 8 | Her grandfather carved it from a single piece of pear wood ; its arms and legs are made of string , its shirt is just an old scrap of pyjama . |
| 9 | I took it from a restaurant this morning . |
| 10 | And he took it from a man . |
| 11 | Police recovered it from a flat in Hong Kong on December 2 and arrested three men . |
| 12 | I made it from a pattern |
| 13 | I got it from a guy called Reuben , he was living in Wales and my sister Louise bought me a Joe Johnson with Rip trucks from him for £60 . |
| 14 | ‘ I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet . |
| 15 | He got it from a friend of his , a soldier in the Scots Guards . |
| 16 | You know she 's , I think she got it from a very good chef she said somewhere . |
| 17 | They in turn got it from a hospital in Leeds , and I know of one other implementation in Sheffield of this particular system , so there may be two or three others that I do n't know about , perhaps four or five in this country , of this particular type . |
| 18 | Minton bought it from a friend , the painter David Bevan , whose wife had recently committed suicide , and this fact , so Minton told George Barker , had influenced his decision to acquire it . |
| 19 | ‘ Mother bought it from a man who came to the door to sell things . |
| 20 | He bought it from a chap called John Dowson , who later married one of the Miss Sayers from West New Houses . |
| 21 | I learned it from a — sort of friend of mine a couple of hours ago . |
| 22 | Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit . |
| 23 | those who omitted it from a dictionary of fables were less than scholarly . |
| 24 | ‘ He stole it from a girl , ’ she explained quickly , before she could feel intimidated . |
| 25 | In the end , he did n't — he started bouncing , so he got one hard wallop and promptly jumped it from a standstill . |