Example sentences of "[vb past] it from [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 4 | But it was not only the international flavour of Penguin New Writing that distinguished it from other symposia of this kind ; Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts , and in particular promoted the neo-romantics . |
| 5 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 8 | Else he 'd of took it from that way . |
| 9 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well I got it from that travel agents |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction . |
| 14 | For certain there will be changes , but it is doubtful if there will ever be such a long line of devoted , generous and hardworking people as those who served the Club so enthusiastically in immensely difficult times , and saved it from certain closure for the likes of ourselves to enjoy . |
| 15 | DPP ( 1987 ) the Australian High Court denounced the doctrine of excessive force as too complicated for juries and removed it from Australian law . |
| 16 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 17 | It recorded the main events of his life , and modern scholarship has in the main verified it from independent documentary sources as well as from Rolle 's own writings . |
| 18 | She had it from another member of the family . |
| 19 | I shifted it from one hand to the other in an attempt to ease the pain in my back and shoulders . |
| 20 | He dangled it from one finger , swung it slowly backwards and forwards in front of the tourist 's eyes . |