Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 2 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 3 | Scotland is extremely lucky in this context , with its record on beef , whisky and salmon — not to mention oatcakes and haggis — which sets it apart or differentiates it from the rest of the market place . |
| 4 | If you work out how much you would have spent in the bar , clubbing or eating out over the weekend and subtract it from the cost of the trip it all seems cheaper than ever . |
| 5 | The ownership of productive property defines this class and separates it from the rest of society . |
| 6 | I laughed at him but , when he heard footsteps in the corridor , he wrenched it off my neck himself and flung it from the window . |
| 7 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 8 | Well , your mother came rushing in from the car with a rare display of energy and snatched it from the fellow 's hands . |
| 9 | The dealer works out the car 's value in two years ' time ( the MGFV , or Minimum Guaranteed Future Value ) and subtracts it from the price , minus your deposit . |
| 10 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 11 | Not because I could n't have had a holiday only that er we had loads of milk so we had to go and fetch it from the farms and you got ta have somebody to take it out . |
| 12 | ‘ There is no dispute about the land unless a claim is made … compensation for those who claim it for their land and receive it from the authorities is calculated according to the value of the property in 1973 plus the difference in the index of inflation together with four per cent interest . ’ |
| 13 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 14 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
| 15 | There was so much that we used to cut it into strips and string it from the eaves to dry in the wind and sun . |
| 16 | He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me . |
| 17 | Alcohol certainly affects most organs , but only the liver can convert it to other substances and clear it from the body . |
| 18 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 19 | This is the second Point that balances the first and safeguards it from the other extreme — being too soft on doubt . |
| 20 | Cumberland also felt some anxiety about the security of Blair Castle , situated about eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , the ancestral home of Lord George Murray , who obtained permission from Prince Charles to try and regain it from the government forces occupying it , but his light guns proved ineffective against the castle 's 7-ft [ 2.1-m ] thick walls . |
| 21 | The pattern of pitch which accompanies the first clause or group of words will be recognised by an English listener as in some way complete and it will hold it together as a separate unit and separate it from the following clause , which will also be held together by intonation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The aim is to arrange the rig in such a way that the wind can blow under it and release it from the water . |
| 24 | But cruelty in intensifying awareness contracts and withdraws it from the pleasures , even from pains not inflicted by the sadist himself . |
| 25 | Within two pages of his translation to the morning-room , he sallies forth to raze Tibbs 's Alley to the ground , and reconstruct it from the sewers upwards . |
| 26 | He unscrews the plate and removes it from the door . |
| 27 | The fan sucks air in through one and expels it from the other , ensuring a healthy , steady flow of air over the motherboard . |
| 28 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 29 | A full understanding of poetry requires that both principles are seen to be at work , for to analyze the laws of poetry without taking account of those of ordinary language would be to overlook the specifically verbal nature of poetry and to transform it from the domain of language to that of music . |
| 30 | 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 . |