Example sentences of "[vb past] it from the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 9 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 10 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He took a taper and lit it from the large wax candle burning in front of the statue of the Madonna . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Millie remembered it from the previous evening . |
| 17 | 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 . |