Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ You want to reclaim it from the people that have been misused it . |
| 3 | A sensible place to begin this endeavour is with the mainspring of the story 's action , the Ring ( here capitalised to distinguish it from the relatively insignificant stage-prop or ‘ Equalizer ’ of The Hobbit ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Oh , our front passenger seat wo n't lock either , you 've got to lock it from the inside , ta |
| 9 | Well I 'm going to do it from a black point of view . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 12 | So whatever has happened , I 'm now going to remove it from the acid . |
| 13 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 14 | Widgery acquiesced , aiming to do it from a position in keeping with the times , and from his revolutionary socialist stance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It also seems to be the character of the trust in personam to which a later source , the fourth-century paraphrase of Gaius from Autun , means to refer in speaking of the beneficiary of a trust of a whole estate as having no right to take possession of the estate himself but having to claim it from the heir . |
| 17 | Do I try to see it from the laibon 's point of view ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " We have n't much line either , " she said , " I shall have to fly it from the stays . " |
| 20 | I can try to get it from the British embassy in Moscow . ’ |
| 21 | Otherwise we put the continuity of vital work in jeopardy by failing to shelter it from the winds of international currency exchanges . |
| 22 | If there is a problem try to see it from the child 's point of view . |
| 23 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 24 | Julia felt worse and worse all the next day , but managed to hide it from the others . |
| 25 | But she had wanted to give it from a position of power , of strength . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 28 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To seek to eliminate it from the environment is impossible ; a fact acknowledged by the Minister for Agriculture and his advisers . |