Example sentences of "[to-vb] it from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 2 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 3 | But Shallis argues that this is hardly surprising , because its very terms of thought are such as to exclude it from the content of all discussion , at the very outset . |
| 4 | The place of violence in English labour history has been reconsidered since the earlier historians , notably the Webbs and Hammonds , followed a Fabian predisposition to exclude it from the mainstream of labour action . |
| 5 | well yes and therefore they wanted the appeal procedure , erm to make it fair I 'm not trying to put words in your mouth but that , term , to eradicate the possibility that someone could be able to exclude it from the market unjustifiably |
| 6 | Julia felt worse and worse all the next day , but managed to hide it from the others . |
| 7 | To understand and explain the behaviour of matter it is sufficient to observe it from the outside . |
| 8 | The cylinders were causing minor explosions and we had to tackle it from the outside , using the protection of adjoining buildings and cars . |
| 9 | Prior to completion of the missives a meeting took place at the farm when an offer was made to purchase it from the defender at a price of £65,000 . |
| 10 | Well that was what they call it , tortoise stove , used to be a big stove and that ai n't got no grate in they had er they used to feed it from the top , |
| 11 | It 's an antibiotic stuff to clean it from the inside . |
| 12 | there is an opportunity of being able to screen it from the Farnsfield direction . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a big shock , ’ admitted Dorothy who went to Buckingham Palace with her husband , Ron , to receive it from the Queen . |
| 14 | Oh , our front passenger seat wo n't lock either , you 've got to lock it from the inside , ta |
| 15 | To seek to eliminate it from the environment is impossible ; a fact acknowledged by the Minister for Agriculture and his advisers . |
| 16 | In their initial — and nearly successful — attempt on the Mort Homme the Germans had sought to outflank it from the northeast , and now they tried a similar movement on Côte 304 from the west . |
| 17 | Resolution 44/29 of Dec. 4 , adopted without a vote , recognized that the " effectiveness of the struggle against terrorism could be enhanced by the establishment of a generally agreed definition of international terrorism " so as to differentiate it from the struggle of peoples for national liberation . |
| 18 | It 's a very simple matter and it it , there 's no so even if the jury are about to hear it from the witness . |
| 19 | The result was that the economy was in the grip of a crisis which could only be resolved by adopting measures to free it from the constraints of autarchy . |
| 20 | He wrenched the knife back and forth to free it from the planking . |
| 21 | But it is extremely unreasonable to suppose that all ( perhaps any ) human beings act from that motivation , either , and if morality is to be a generally human phenomenon , it is simply a mistake to equate it from the beginning with such exigently Kantian formulations , and it is a mistake even from the point of view of the human sciences . |
| 22 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
| 23 | If the garment shape was design in a previous session , you need to load it from the disk before you can begin to integrate . |
| 24 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 25 | When he opened the scoring , it came as no surprise , for it had looked as if he 'd be the one to do it from the start . |
| 26 | It must be the nearest thing you could get to Lord Ismay … it was just the tip how to run it , how to manage it from the Government point of view . |
| 27 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 28 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 29 | The question , Do androids dream of electric sheep ? , is the central philosophical question in my reading , and a great deal of effort is required to resolve it from the text . |
| 30 | Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it . |