Example sentences of "[vb past] it from [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go .
2 I opposed it from the very beginning .
3 This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action .
4 To the British , Jamaica was the ‘ key to the Indies ’ when they captured it from the Spanish as an afterthought in 1655 .
5 He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures .
6 They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway .
7 On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood .
8 Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination .
9 Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems .
10 Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side .
11 Her grandfather carved it from a single piece of pear wood ; its arms and legs are made of string , its shirt is just an old scrap of pyjama .
12 He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves .
13 To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of !
14 During the years between 1813 and 1830 Serbia , under Miloš , had experienced a social , cultural and economic transformation which brought it from the medieval obscurity of a declining oriental despotism to the threshold of modern European statehood .
15 Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady .
16 He took a taper and lit it from the large wax candle burning in front of the statue of the Madonna .
17 The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley .
18 Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer .
19 In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 .
20 Obvious efforts are being made here to reduce the damage , which was much worse than I remembered it from a previous visit .
21 Millie remembered it from the previous evening .
22 Word reached him of a Corsair in southern France , and after viewing the airframe , Harris purchased it from the French authorities for $ 1,000 , and shipped it to San Francisco in early 1974 .
23 The thieves stole it from an industrial estate at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire , where Robin Macdonald runs a small bakery .
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