Example sentences of "[vb pp] it from the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you got it from the tables . |
| 2 | You should hear what I 've got it from the boys ! |
| 3 | I pointed out that Christianity had always stressed the idea of faith history ( having got it from the Jews ) and that Jesus was believed to be the intervention of God in human history . |
| 4 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |
| 5 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |
| 6 | If we did not know this before , we have learned it from the actions of parents in Dewsbury who , at the beginning of the school year 1987/8 , refused to allow their children to attend a local primary school that was predominantly Muslim . |
| 7 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |
| 8 | Captain Kinloch had inherited the estate of Kinloch in Strathmore from his younger brother , John , who had purchased it from the proceeds of a fortune made as a sugar planter in Jamaica , and had died in 1770 . |
| 9 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |