Example sentences of "[vb infin] it from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you know it from a real Poussin ? ’ |
| 2 | You could smell it from the far side of the room through its Father Christmas wrapping paper . |
| 3 | He by his Labour does , as it were , inclose it from the Common . |
| 4 | So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up . |
| 5 | Well in one sense I , I would like to see Jane addressing it , because she can do it from a non-divisional point of view . |
| 6 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 7 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 8 | yeah I think , I do n't , she must lock it from the inside window back through |
| 9 | But he asked them to ‘ see it from a different viewpoint . |
| 10 | Their snug cottage looked across the road to the ugliest house on the green , the Rectory , which stood at six o'clock , dead opposite the Youngs across Thrush Green , and was consequently a source of continuous irritation to Edward , the architect , who could see it from every south-facing window of his house . |
| 11 | I mean he kept , I mean he did n't do anything to the city you ca n't even see it from the old one 's still standing and it 's in the wrong it 's so nice . |
| 12 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 13 | I see let take it from the other end , why did you have to take the insertion of the contingency fund of the estimates |
| 14 | ‘ Let's try it from a different perspective , ’ she said , and pressed |
| 15 | The sign was peeling and you could n't read it from the other side of the square but the Three Towns knew who Whalbys ' were without that . |
| 16 | You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’ |
| 17 | A reporter , a correspondent , who sends in such a story does not get it from an official news-agency but from gossip — no doubt checked , reliable and trustworthy , simply marked by its lack of official confirmation . |
| 18 | You can get it from the frozen . |
| 19 | Mr Hitchens said : ‘ We did not get it from the Labour party . ’ |
| 20 | If the proposals of early 1858 reached the statute book , " The whole of Russia will turn into nothing more than a military colony ( obratitsia v odno voennoe poselenie ) , and who will save it from the new Arakcheev who is emerging in the person of Iakov Ivanovich Rostovtsev ? " |
| 21 | Stack of them , yeah , but how d' ya get it out , are you gon na save it from the hard disk onto a floppy ? |
| 22 | I er I can only write it from a Jewish perspective , it 's the perspective I stand at , but it seems to me that beyond a few superficialities there is no such thing as Jewish spiritual truth any more than there is Jewish mathematical truth . |
| 23 | Maggie Smith once said about him : ‘ Kenneth taught me how to recognize the one word in a sentence which would turn it from a commonplace statement into something wildly funny . ’ |