Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |
| 2 | The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy . |
| 3 | If the letter had been burnt in the presence of all the members of the family immediately after being read , then the copy could only have been sent to him before they received it , by the person who went to pick it up from the rubbish skip . |
| 4 | A short zip is a compromise but most bags now come with a full length zip , generally with a double puller which enables you to open it up from the top or bottom to allow air to ventilate in warmer weather . |
| 5 | They told the lieutenant over at the hotel , but he wanted to hear it directly from the company . |
| 6 | I mean I was asked to do it right from the word go was n't I ? |
| 7 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |
| 8 | His arms had sunk in and he was twisting around , thrashing his head to keep it away from the wall — but it still sucked him in . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 10 | That 's right you have to keep it away from the face because they 're dangerous are n't they ? |
| 11 | People without the ready money to buy a necessity of life like a house , who had to borrow it not from an individual with the distasteful label ‘ money-lender ’ , but a non-profit mutual cooperation body called a building society , were respectable . |
| 12 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 13 | So he 's , he 's really got to get it right from the word go . |
| 14 | She got into the flat-bottomed boat and tried to push it away from the bank but the pole stuck in the mud and the boat was too heavy for her to move . |
| 15 | It 's thought the pilots stayed in the plane as long as possible to steer it away from a row of houses . |
| 16 | He had a full bomb load , but managed to level the plane long enough for his crew to bail out , then he managed to steer it away from the town and crash into a nearby field . |
| 17 | There the 12th of July parade had been re-routed to take it away from the ‘ Tunnel ’ , part of the traditional route which had become a Catholic area . |
| 18 | The argument was both flattering and convenient — so convenient that the middle classes were inclined to take it over from the aristocrats ( who had long fancied themselves a superior race ) for internal as well as international purposes : the poor were poor because they were biologically inferior and conversely , if citizens belonged to ‘ lower races ’ , it was no wonder that they stayed poor and backward . |
| 19 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 20 | Ten years ago I had purchased such a camera , a Pentax ME Super , and fortunately , I was able to dig it out from the back of a cupboard to find that it was still in excellent working order . |
| 21 | In my time which coincided with Frank Hodsoll 's two terms as Chairman the agency ran smoothly , and few grants of a clearly scabrous nature ever managed to make it up from the panels , past the Chairman 's gimlet eye , to the Council . |