Example sentences of "[vb pp] it from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 2 | A few minutes later Silas led Lucy into the office , where he checked the telephone 's answering device for messages , then , having unhooked it from the phone , he said , ‘ There you are — it 's all yours . ’ |
| 3 | Could have done it from the front . |
| 4 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 5 | A long thin garden of lawn and ornamental cypresses , enclosed by shrubs and then by iron railings , separated it from the boulevard between the cemetery and the church . |
| 6 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 7 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 8 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 9 | It was likely that , just as Theodora had seen the car from the bridal path , Miss Dersingham could have seen it from the House . |
| 10 | He had seen it from the outside . |
| 11 | I 've seen it from the outside it 's quite erm |
| 12 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 13 | Have you got it from the tables . |
| 14 | You should hear what I 've got it from the boys ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I have already got it from the beat constable that she was n't there at four o'clock . ’ |
| 17 | She just replied that she had got it from the cupboard . ’ |
| 18 | She must have got it from the room where I keep my guns . |
| 19 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |
| 20 | She has certainly not privatized it from the Constitution , for all Michael Heseltine 's complaints . |
| 21 | Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry . |
| 22 | We ought to have known it from the moment Mrs Thatcher was made a member of the Order of Merit , one of the top 24 in the land . |
| 23 | Greg had brought it from the side-table for her . |
| 24 | I certainly would n't have guessed it from the way you 've been behaving . |
| 25 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 26 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 27 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It shows that the street has been given to the car and attempts have been made to adjust the child : on finding that the child can not be adjusted parents have removed it from the street . |
| 30 | The SOCO drew the key from her pocket with a smile , saying she had borrowed it from the office manager . |