Example sentences of "from the [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disabled woman in Wigan has won £10,000 damages from the council after it failed to carry out necessary adaptations to her home . |
| 2 | I watched the smoke rising from the liquid as it changed colour from red to purple and at last to green . |
| 3 | Desperately needing to justify her own actions , minimise her behaviour , she thought it all through again from the beginning until it made even less sense than it had before . |
| 4 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 5 | He could not avoid it , he took a lungful of the diesel fumes from the taxi as it pulled away . |
| 6 | First , are we to regard the welfare state , which fits uneasily , if at all , into a Marxist scheme , as a new type of state , which differs in fundamental respects from the state as it existed in the laissez-faire capitalist societies of the nineteenth century ? |
| 7 | Screams came from the bundle as it fell , turning twice in the air against the grey-brown cliff-face . |
| 8 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 9 | I did not live far from the school so it did not take long to get there . |
| 10 | And it would be excluded from the greenbelt because it did n't serve a greenbelt function ? |
| 11 | He collects it from the door when it arrives to spare her the embarrassment of being seen by the boy . |
| 12 | There is more of a case for liberating animals from the wild when it seems that they will not meet the pitiless test of nature . |
| 13 | We must ensure that we can further benefit from the work that it performs so well . |
| 14 | Theories and explanations must emerge from the work as it goes along . |
| 15 | AROUND £58 million was wiped off the personal fortunes of Body Shop founders Anita and Gordon Roddick yesterday , when shares in the toiletries chain slumped £1.12 to £1.54 , following a shock warning from the company that it has been hit hard by the slump . |
| 16 | They had been told they had NO chance of a refund after Tjolle declared himself bankrupt , even though he removed £400,000 from the company before it collapsed . |
| 17 | On a daily basis the objectives are to ‘ make sure that the investments or companies are progressing according to plan and are well placed to survive a prolonged recession ’ and , he adds , ‘ dare I say it , to benefit from the upturn when it comes ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Harper claims he does not find his long day tiring : ‘ If it comes from the heart and it comes with divine strength it 's easy . |
| 19 | In the early 1980s when the policy of overfunding led to persistent money market shortages , the Bank 's bill mountain was criticised from the standpoint that it entailed the Bank acting essentially as a clearing bank , lending to the corporate sector ( albeit indirectly ) via its bill purchases . |
| 20 | The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable . |
| 21 | When he refused , Mr Reynolds climbed off the engine and watched it fall through the bridge on to the car , steam and smoke erupting from the cab as it did so . |
| 22 | A number of gentlemen raised their hands uncertainly and a gasp of surprise went up from the assembly as it became evident that almost all the food had been bought on Rayne 's behalf . |
| 23 | The opposition Semangat " 46 party retained two Kelantan State Assembly seats on Aug. 24 in by-elections called after two of its Assembly members defected to the United Malays National Organization and were then disqualified from the Assembly when it passed retroactive anti-defection legislation . |
| 24 | But the glory will not fade from the Christian as it did from Moses . |
| 25 | He said that Maccas goal would be credited as an OG , cos he was trying to pull it back from the byline but it hit sherwood and span in . |
| 26 | There was a small explosion and a flash from the flare as it curved into the air . |
| 27 | Smoke was now pouring thickly from the doorway and it had just occurred to Rocky that no enemy personnel had as yet put in an appearance , when Larsen came stumbling out , eyes streaming , one arm hugging his daughter protectively , shotgun dangling from his free hand . |
| 28 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 29 | The farther it goes from the entrance before it dances , the farther away is the flower that it has discovered . |
| 30 | Craig Porter made a spectacular goal line clearance from Stephen Galway five minutes from the interval but it proved worthless when the same opponent flicked in number two from the resulting short corner after Andy McBride 's shot had been saved . |