Example sentences of "[vb base] it from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billie lay there , imagining Adam with that smart-arse grin across his face , as he watched the girl abuse his body , lick it from toe to top . |
| 2 | It is a strange sensation , but many sense it from time to time : a consuming desire to part with money . |
| 3 | A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells . |
| 4 | The criminals find their way round something and then the , then the alarm companies stop it from happening . |
| 5 | The Confederation of British Industry stepped forward with a plan that practically doubled the sum to be spent by the government : £21 billion to rewrite the nation 's economic geography and save it from catastrophe . |
| 6 | I read it from cover to cover and keep every copy . |
| 7 | And you know it from cover to cover ? |
| 8 | Shock , but after a while their limbs 'll start trembling and they become very confused , now a person , a perfectly nice person , oh , you know , always very helpful and kind can suddenly become aggressive and they really do become aggressive and , if they go to violence their strength , oh where they get it from god only knows , but they could literally throw a person across the room . |
| 9 | I get it from time to time . |
| 10 | Workers pass it from mouth to mouth or gather one another 's excrement in order to reprocess the partially digested food and extract the last particle of nutriment from it . |
| 11 | If you use it from floor to ceiling in a recess — say the recesses either side of a chimney breast — it will look as if you can walk into a whole extra room next door . |
| 12 | This time the District Councils collect it from Community Charges payers , and whether you had a rating systems in place at the moment , or whether you have Community Charge , Bob and his high spending friends would still have to rein in their expenditure and recognise that the people of Oxfordshire can not keep paying for his profligacy . |
| 13 | Many in France assume the government will have to ( or choose to ) rescue it from bankruptcy . |
| 14 | Eventually perhaps — this was Bertrand Russell 's speculation — the Americans would re-colonize Europe and rescue it from barbarism . |
| 15 | A text , then , has features of organization which distinguish it from non-text , that is , from a random collection of sentences and paragraphs . |
| 16 | Thus , German Romanesque has various characteristics which define and distinguish it from French or Italian , for example . |
| 17 | However , when you come to knit the design , or load it from memory ready to knit , then it does matter , as we shall see later . |
| 18 | I am sure the answer is yes ; we all do it from time to time . |
| 19 | Keep a list of things you worry about and analyse it from time to time to see what your worrying changed . |
| 20 | Sowing seed amongst lumps of soil , even if they are only 6 mm ( ¼ in ) in diameter , will not result in seedlings — the seed simply does not germinate , however much you water the soil and protect it from cold . |
| 21 | It is important in a democracy that there should be a balance of power in education to secure its impartiality and protect it from party political abuse . |
| 22 | protect it from loss or damage . |
| 23 | and protect it from loss or damage . |
| 24 | protect it from loss or damage.9 |
| 25 | protect it from loss or damage . |
| 26 | protect it from loss or damage . |
| 27 | protect it from loss or damage . |
| 28 | Cover the word : write it from memory . |
| 29 | Take all violence out of television drama and you disconnect it from reality , leaving it unable to portray anything deeper than its own bonds . |
| 30 | According to your editorial today ( ‘ Filling the vacuum ’ ) , ‘ take all violence out of television drama and you disconnect it from reality ’ ; whose ‘ reality ’ ? |