Example sentences of "[vb pp] it from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 3 | He would have liked to have watched it from the public gallery ; but that would have been asking for trouble . |
| 4 | And they 've clouted it from the outside going in . |
| 5 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 6 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 7 | And I 've heard it from a whole bunch of people , she says stuff , she actually tells people I 'm on heroin all the time . |
| 8 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 9 | Rose was the second generation in it , and she had taken it from a back street operation to a small , high class chain . |
| 10 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 11 | He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end . |