Example sentences of "about it from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 2 | The Archbishop arrived in Munich between performances of La finta giardiniera , and although he was not to hear the work himself , he learnt about it from the Elector and his family : |
| 3 | But , still , he liked to hear about it from the others . |
| 4 | When we know what a printed word is , we may be said to have collected data about it from the page . |
| 5 | They were , in fact , probing towards the central issue of the Watergate affair : not who planned it , but who knew about it from the start and who had ordered the cover-up . |
| 6 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 8 | ‘ Actually , I already know quite a bit about it from the guide-books , ’ she began . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 10 | I got to hear about it from the police . ’ |
| 11 | And I think first of all , make sure you 've got it right , make sure you are doing things for the right reasons , and you are concerned about the right issues , but then , shout about it from the rooftops . |