Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it from [art] " in BNC.

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31 The HIE chief executive , Iain Robertson , said : ‘ Objective 1 funding would provide a platform for growth for the Highlands and Islands which would take it from the edge of Europe to the community 's very heart . ’
32 ‘ Objective 1 funding would provide a platform for growth for the Highlands and Islands which would take it from the edge of Europe to the community 's very heart , ’ said the Highlands and Islands Enterprise chief executive , Iain Robertson .
33 Maggie Smith once said about him : ‘ Kenneth taught me how to recognize the one word in a sentence which would turn it from a commonplace statement into something wildly funny . ’
34 Always move the deleted column at once , otherwise you may lose it from the Scrap .
35 ‘ Whatever the truth of it , ’ said the earl with assurance , ‘ you have him safe in hold , you need only wait , and if he has indeed more and worse to tell , you may get it from the lad himself .
36 But we will subsidise it from the jumble sale , so Amy , I hope you have a good jumble sale !
37 If the proposals of early 1858 reached the statute book , " The whole of Russia will turn into nothing more than a military colony ( obratitsia v odno voennoe poselenie ) , and who will save it from the new Arakcheev who is emerging in the person of Iakov Ivanovich Rostovtsev ? "
38 You can make it from a standing start to 60 miles per hour in 8.6 seconds — almost exactly the same time as a Mazda MX3 .
39 So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came .
40 Well in one sense I , I would like to see Jane addressing it , because she can do it from a non-divisional point of view .
41 Er it it is I can remove it from the rest of the the sales that er even from the direct sales that you 've been
42 You can see it from the fields up there .
43 Erm , my Lord I do n't think it 's necessary to go through the rather complicated headland potentially gives you though I can see it from the er .
44 I mean my house is actually right next to it and also the people that live at Shilton Edge Farm erm and you can see it from the airfield or the Kencot Road .
45 You can see it from the bottom of our garden
46 Yeah I mean you can guess it from the clue without having to fill in the crossword .
47 She can read it from the screen , she does n't need it printed out .
48 And just to put together a way that you can change it from a feature into a benefit , using either of those ways .
49 You can tell it from a beef tapeworm by the hooks on its mouth .
50 The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers .
51 I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again .
52 Except now you can get it from a supermarket in your town .
53 She says children can get it from a very tiny age and if you think of a child starting its every day , not even able to move its own limbs freely .
54 You can get it from the frozen .
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