Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
| 2 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 3 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 4 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 5 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 6 | The character has a base 20% chance each round of dragging it from the skeleton 's grasp . |
| 7 | We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division . |
| 8 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 9 | So free it from the edge of the sinker plate that it 's on , but without freeing it from the wheels and brushes beneath the sinker plate . |
| 10 | You say as I understand it that er the possible er use of this land as a strategic reserve is not the main reason er for excluding it from the greenbelt . |
| 11 | This lining can be fitted to the outer curtain by hanging it from the same curtain hooks ( fig. 26a ) , or from the base of the glider on a track with combined hook/gliders ( fig. 26b ) . |
| 12 | In 1985–6 , the government transferred a quarter of the overall funding for work-related FE courses in further education colleges from local authorities ' budgets ( by deducting it from the rate support grant , the predecessor of the revenue support grant ; see Chapter 8 ) to the MSC . |
| 13 | Its owners move themselves about by protruding it from the shell and rippling its undersurface . |
| 14 | But , as in most places , shortages were eased by ingenious home-made car parts and machinery , by pooling transport where possible and , for instance , easing the salt shortage by extracting it from the sea . |
| 15 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 16 | I did get around this by approaching it from the other side : I added gain to the clean modes and it all came together well . |
| 17 | Whether their inclination was to enhance the symbiotic relationship of church and state or , for those of them tending towards support of Tractarianism , to reunify the church by distancing it from the state while reinforcing respect for its ordinance , hierarchy and ‘ Catholic ’ traditions , nonconformists were likely to perceive either process as antithetical to their status , rights and interests . |