Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attacker claimed that Carter had threatened him with the knife and when he tried to take it from him , Carter had been wounded . |
| 2 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 3 | He 'd made it from Oxford . |
| 4 | He 'd learned it from his grandparents . |
| 5 | ‘ Luftwaffe pilot , but even he had to do it from Canada into the States before they were in the war . ’ |
| 6 | He had seen it from the outside . |
| 7 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |
| 8 | Mr. Pegg denied that he had returned to his home to fetch the knife , and alleged that he had seized it from Goddard during the struggle between them . |
| 9 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 10 | He had learned it from his father , a full gypsy ; it was supposed to bring good fortune and happiness , something magical to do with blood . |
| 11 | He had bought it from its previous aging owner/headmaster in 1969 , and had been there ever since . |
| 12 | I bet he had to get it from out the back did he ? |
| 13 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 14 | He wanted to lose it from his memory . |