Example sentences of "he [vb past] it from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the dentist had announced that it was urgently necessary to extract two teeth Mills had got up and walked away , glad that he had n't taken off his coat and so would not have to enter into any further discussion while he recovered it from the waiting-room . |
| 2 | He got it from a friend of his , a soldier in the Scots Guards . |
| 3 | He got it from the boys instead . |
| 4 | I 'm sure that 's where he said he got it from the |
| 5 | He widened it from a training for future priests of the Church of England to a course which anyone might wish to read for their education . |
| 6 | He poured it from a Victorian coffee pot waiting on a hotplate and launched into a description of a case he 'd just won punctuated by blasts of laughter and big gestures . |
| 7 | Eventually he pulled it from a pile of papers . |
| 8 | And he took it from a man . |
| 9 | ‘ He took it from the gene labs . |
| 10 | He took it from the packing case , staring , thunderstruck . |
| 11 | He took it from the forceps and examined it carefully . |
| 12 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 13 | He bought it from a chap called John Dowson , who later married one of the Miss Sayers from West New Houses . |
| 14 | You do n't know whether he did it from an entrepreneur 's point of view , or from er |
| 15 | Whatever Massim 's cousin Sunil did for a living , he did it from an old-fashioned headmaster 's desk and a small personal computer . |
| 16 | ‘ He stole it from a girl , ’ she explained quickly , before she could feel intimidated . |
| 17 | Every weekend he gave Mossman the baker a shilling for his cart and every Saturday afternoon he pushed it from the bakery to the square in the High Street and harangued the passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war . |
| 18 | He plucked it from the carpet . |