Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv prt] from the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |