Example sentences of "from it and [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game can be played in a more limited form in the little bowl-type individual urinals which are more fashionable these days , but Jamie has never tried this himself , being so short that if he is to use one of those he has to stand about a metre back from it and lob his waste water in . |
| 2 | May we turn our eyes towards this great sun , draw warmth and strength and comfort from it and receive its blessing . |
| 3 | Having read the report , the next morning Aitken telephoned Hugh Fraser , then of course a Conservative MP , to tell him about it , to quote extracts from it and to hear his very firm agreement that the report 's contents should be disclosed as a matter of public interest . |
| 4 | It 's sometimes easier for them to cope if they distance themselves from it and rebuild their lives as single parents , without telling people what they 've been through . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |