Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything conspires to whisk you back into the past , including the statue of a fierce bearded mercenary leaning on his shield and grasping his pike firmly as though challenging you to try to take it from him . |
| 2 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |
| 3 | Those who have not inherited their money , unlike the Queen , Sally Burton and Linda McCartney , seem to have earned it from sex . |
| 4 | various men seem to have caught it from changing their nappies . |
| 5 | To seek to eliminate it from the environment is impossible ; a fact acknowledged by the Minister for Agriculture and his advisers . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know how he is supposed to have made it from Carluke to the bar in Motherwell if he did kill the girl at the time it was said he did . |
| 7 | When I come out , it 's you and me again , and he 's going to have to hear it from me . |
| 8 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
| 9 | We ought to have known it from the moment Mrs Thatcher was made a member of the Order of Merit , one of the top 24 in the land . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're going to have to get it from somewhere , Tiptoe , ’ they heard him say . |
| 11 | It is not usually considered to be an important tone for foreign learners to acquire , though it is still useful practice to learn to distinguish it from other tones . |
| 12 | It is time for the government to act to protect it from future ecstasy |