Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] it from " in BNC.

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1 The name was spoken with a malevolent hiss , as though he were spitting it from his blood-smeared mouth , so hateful was its foul taste to him .
2 But he can only get a hundred pound back if he 's get it from the bank .
3 As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly .
4 He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror .
5 Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin .
6 ‘ Would it be rude of me to ask who he was hiding it from ? ’
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