Example sentences of "and [v-ing] it from " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first step was really to get to know London by walking and drawing it from all angles . |
| 2 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 3 | I doubt whether we can afford it , I doubt whether , I think the problems are so immense , er what really means is down I think , tearing down most of their industry and rebuilding it from scratch . |
| 4 | It made her think of bath night at Lyra Street ; of the ritual carrying-in of the tub and filling it from pans and kettles set to boil on bright red coals . |
| 5 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
| 6 | Then followed a resolution naming the London committee ‘ The Veterinary College , London ’ , and separating it from its parent , the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 7 | If the bird keeps struggling , it will be clawed and bitten repeatedly by its captor , but if it lies still the cat may then make the mistake of putting it down on the ground and releasing it from its jaws . |
| 8 | It is a bit like trying to describe to a blind person what is a horse and distinguishing it from a bull . |
| 9 | Marx argued that the former might lead , through unemployment , to working class unrest and the latter would , in tying up capital and removing it from the circulation of capital , reduce the rate of profits made in production . |
| 10 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 11 | For she had taken her mind from his marauding hands and , with a low guttural cry , he had succeeded in stripping off her top and flinging it from them into the dark recesses of the room . |
| 12 | They had learned the finer points from a freebooter at Dover , later buying their own streamlined cutter and running it from Folkestone to the French coast , dealing in brandy and fine lace . |
| 13 | ‘ Hit it , ’ he said , seizing el grip with a painful vice and swinging it from side to side . |
| 14 | It is just a question of sitting down with people like Roy Evans and taking it from there . ’ |
| 15 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh God , it 's going to be a terrible place ! ’ cries Howard to his fellow-guests around the Chases ' dinner table , holding his head and rocking it from side to side in humorous despair . |
| 17 | The huer 's job , after announcing the sighting of the shoal , was to guide his own boat to the fish , signalling East or West by removing his coat and waving it from side to side and , when the boat was on top of the shoal , by placing his coat on his telescope and holding it aloft . |
| 18 | She moved her arm behind her back , and the metal claw responded simultaneously , grasping the air line and plucking it from its housing in the back of the suit . |
| 19 | As announced in Pravda , the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) , on April 24 , it insisted that stabilizing the country and extricating it from its present crisis was inconceivable without a " cardinal increase in the role of the republics " . |
| 20 | The way that most invertebrate and mixed systems are set up , with intricate rockwork and powerful water movement , makes it very difficult to spot uneaten food particles , and the various scavengers are vital in picking this surplus up , and preventing it from decaying and fouling the tank . |
| 21 | Hedges also obstruct farm machinery , rob crops of food and water and shade the crop , producing uneven growth and preventing it from drying out at harvest . |