Example sentences of "from it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He withdrew from it a rare bound second volume of Palestine Illustrated by François Schotten , published in Paris in 1929 .
2 Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness .
3 Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old .
4 Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him .
5 Carefully Dalziel reached into his inside pocket and took from it a large envelope .
6 Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown .
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