Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 2 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 3 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
| 4 | But what really counts is this indirect usefulness to her , it released her from the patterns of the novel of society and therefore , permitted the flowering of her real talent , a talent for finding and giving dramatic form to impulses and feelings which because of their depth , or mysteriousness , or intensity , or ambiguity , or of their ignoring or transcending every day norms of propriety or reason , increase wonderfully the sense of reality in a novel . |
| 5 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 6 | The figure turning the corner and walking heavily down the road could not under any circumstances have been Edward , but at least it relieved her from the suspicion that the street was uninhabited . |
| 7 | It covered everything from the stratosphere to the street corner . |
| 8 | Philosophically it inherited something from the Absolute Idealism of the Hegelians and other nineteenth-century opponents of materialism , thus refusing to think of ‘ reality ’ as distinct from ideas of reality . |
| 9 | Murder appalled him because it took everything from the victim with no possibility of restitution , it blotted out memories of a past and hopes for a future . |
| 10 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |
| 11 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |