Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 2 | Well I got it from that travel agents |
| 3 | Mm , we went in that , we went and got me barm cakes and a bit , a few veg and that , went , oh I bought Li Joanne a little set of er instead of an Easter egg , it 's quite nice , I got it from that shop , you know erm next to Kingston and Hutch |
| 4 | I think it 'll be a good one because I got it from one of our clients . |
| 5 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 6 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 7 | I shifted it from one hand to the other in an attempt to ease the pain in my back and shoulders . |
| 8 | lives or is that talking about they 've approached straight line that 's already there in heaven , in other words , the , the , you know that the understanding which I have it from this bible is er that seems to be suggesting that er that 's talking about apos the apostles ' lives before they died , our spiritual lives with brightest ones who have at that er point been made perfect by being prepared to go where they 're going |
| 9 | And although the er , the causal relationship is not completely established , it is a very helpful way of remembering that one of the principle distinguishing features of this organism which separates it from other members of the genus staphylococcus it pr it produces this enzyme to coagulate things on and the effects of this enzyme are illustrated here as against the control preparation , you see a clot form due to the action of this enzyme on clotting practice which has been put into this test tube serum . |
| 10 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 11 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 12 | In the USA , the particularly distinctive features of unionism which distinguish it from that found in most continental European countries include ‘ job consciousness and job control , business unionism , an overwhelming emphasis upon economic struggle and collective bargaining , as opposed to broad political reform of the society and the economy ’ ( Kassalow , 1969 , p. 6 ) . |
| 13 | The essential characteristics of this primacy which distinguished it from such primacies as that of Hamburg or Lyons were , first , that it was centred in a monastic community , and second , that its roots and its authorization went back ( as Anselm was persuaded ) to its original constitution in the seventh century . |
| 14 | It had a depth and penetration which separated it from most other consultants ' reports of the time . |
| 15 | These sceptical , cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities . |
| 16 | The uniforms were , the equipment was and yet it worked , it really worked , how efficient I suppose when you judge it from modern standards , I do n't know . |
| 17 | Have you got it from last wee the week before ? |
| 18 | You can install the program on a hard disk if you have one , or you run it from two floppy disk drives . |
| 19 | She heard it from that dry old stick , Simpson . |
| 20 | When you name a document of your own , you can add your own filename extension to help you distinguish it from other types of files . |
| 21 | ( You take it from old Shallot , the wicked have little difficulty in sleeping ! ) |
| 22 | She had it from another member of the family . |
| 23 | Could we , could we have it from next Tuesday in my room ? |
| 24 | Whether we inherit our temperament from one or other of our parents or whether we absorb it from prolonged contact is not certain . |
| 25 | To make sure that you know , they 've got to understand we police it from that which means that you go over |
| 26 | With his own modest roots he dismisses the attacks on a class-based judiciary : ‘ The youngsters believe that we come from a narrow background — it 's all nonsense — they get it from that man Griffith . ’ |
| 27 | They buy it from one country one time another country another time . |
| 28 | Here it distinguishes it from factual enquiry , at least as that is conceived by those with a robust sense that there is a way things really are in the world . |
| 29 | had given , in the course of his judgment , a summary of the law governing the procedure for requiring a specimen of blood or urine under what is now section 7(4) , as he derived it from previous decisions , in the following passage : |
| 30 | He dangled it from one finger , swung it slowly backwards and forwards in front of the tourist 's eyes . |