Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it is an elaboration of the task , designed to subtract it from the category of ‘ work ’ and add it to the creative pleasure dimension . |
| 2 | Prior to completion of the missives a meeting took place at the farm when an offer was made to purchase it from the defender at a price of £65,000 . |
| 3 | When bad news was finally announced , dealers were instructed to conceal it from their clients for as long as possible . |
| 4 | In their initial — and nearly successful — attempt on the Mort Homme the Germans had sought to outflank it from the northeast , and now they tried a similar movement on Côte 304 from the west . |
| 5 | The varied menu of attractions at the centre means quick changes have to be made to convert it from jazz venue to theatre to dance hall . |
| 6 | A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage . |
| 7 | The chair or commode has to be correctly positioned , for instance , and firmly secured to prevent it from slipping away as the patient is moved . |
| 8 | The mains inlet cable must be secured to prevent it from pulling out , and a cable gland or ‘ P ’ clip can be used as normal . |
| 9 | Manpower was then used to tow it from Morley to a warehouse in Chickenley ( old scores must have been forgotten ! ) , where it was stored and painted . |
| 10 | But the company said its investment programme helped raise its visibility in a relatively lifeless marketplace and , in the American laboratory market in particular , helped shield it from the worst effects of the recession . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not denying it , but you 've got to see it from our point of view at the time . |
| 12 | situation I 'd suspect will be addressed within that other part , I did mention in my presentation that there are a number of inter-related problems here , I can trace about four or five , all of which have a chain reaction one upon the other , unfortunately Brandon is up front so we 've got to tackle it from the other direction . |
| 13 | Oh , our front passenger seat wo n't lock either , you 've got to lock it from the inside , ta |
| 14 | And we have n't thought to do it from anywhere else , other than |
| 15 | This pipe is usually a 25mm ( 1in ) diameter steel pipe , wrapped with special tape to protect it from rusting , and buried to protect it from frost . |
| 16 | ‘ I LEFT the place having helped to transport it from a snotty-nosed , public-school-type club to a place where people from all levels of society came to enjoy cricket . ’ |
| 17 | It is this which has helped to prevent it from being completely submerged by later developments . |
| 18 | Low-level ozone , so called to distinguish it from the naturally forming ozone in the stratosphere which accounts for about 90 per cent of the ozone in the atmosphere , is created by the action of sunlight on oxides of nitrogen and reactive hydrocarbons ( volatile organic compounds ) emitted by vehicles and industry . |
| 19 | In 1557 the Tiber changed its course and Ostia Antica ( as it is termed to differentiate it from the modern Lido town ) is now a few kilometres inland and not on the riverside any more . |
| 20 | Reproductive structures should really be found to distinguish it from other , superficially fern-like plants . |
| 21 | As we all know now the group was formed to save it from extinction and now ‘ Duke ’ is happily not only still with us but thriving . |
| 22 | But she had wanted to give it from a position of power , of strength . |
| 23 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 24 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 25 | Cut around the tile to be removed to separate it from its neighbours |
| 26 | In an exchange of letters with lay critics of the Royal Society of Chemistry-s award of a fellowship to the ‘ world-ranking scientist and academician ’ , J. S. Gow , the Society 's Secretary-General , had tried to distance it from the Romanian laureate . |
| 27 | The war in the Gulf was not fought to liberate Kuwait from a medieval fiefdom , it was fought to liberate it from Iraqi occupation . |
| 28 | She 'd cried then , because she had loved the doll so much and the inspector had tried to take it from her . |
| 29 | This adjective , emphasizing its size , is inserted to distinguish it from his great organ ( sic ) , then standing in the theatre at Covent Garden ( which , incidentally , he left not to Smith but to John Rich ) . |
| 30 | As their aircraft was seen moving erratically apparently out of control , it seems they stayed on board determined to keep it from hitting houses . |