Example sentences of "from [pron] [noun] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COUPLE fled to safety from their home after it was rocked by a gas blast . |
| 2 | Be interesting , of course , if fire cover were withdrawn , because then they would have to rustle up the R.A.F. crews from Brize Norton who would n't know their big toes from their elbows when it came to plutonium and highly enriched uranium and chemical explosive . |
| 3 | Judith was well aware of the economics involved in the provision of kosher meat for Cork 's forty or so Jewish families , but it was worth submitting to a lecture on it from her mother if it helped to make her more amenable . |
| 4 | For a long moment he held her tightly against him as if he was afraid she might try to elude him , then when he seemed sure of her his hands encircled her waist , moulded her hips and moved upwards , unbuttoning her shirt , pulling it from the waistband of her jeans , then slipping it from her shoulders until it fell to the floor . |
| 5 | I 've jus ' took it away from its muvver so it 'll need the warmth . ’ |
| 6 | And since the discipline can not exclude psychological subjects from its accounts as it can psychologists , it has to consider the effects of gender variations among subjects more than it does among psychologists . |
| 7 | The Humpback , swimming a little way below the surface , emits a fine trace of bubbles from its blow-hole as it describes a circle or a figure of eight around a shoal of fish . |
| 8 | She alleged that the faculty then deviated from its regulations when it came to considering her application for exemption from some exams and also on the standard of scholarship it applied to her . |
| 9 | The horse blew great jets of steam from its nostrils as it stood on the towpath , patiently waiting for them to board . |
| 10 | She reached down and , for a moment , Pete was half expecting some response ; a stag , perhaps , breaking the surface of the lake and climbing out to her , water streaming from its flanks as it came to her hand . |
| 11 | Miss Stonehouse said she feared the worst when she saw her son flung from his pushchair after it was in collision with a car . |
| 12 | Miss Stonehouse told how she saw her son flung from his pushchair after it was in collision with a car . |
| 13 | He led others to assume that soon world-dazzling poetry would catapult from his head as it had from those of other English boys : Lennon , Jagger , Bowie . |
| 14 | The material was deemed faulty and Mr Martinson was emptying it from his truck when it splashed over him , causing severe burns . |
| 15 | A man leaps from his canoe as it hurtles towards us . |
| 16 | He had executed in public deserters from his battalion when it fought for its life on the Basra to Baghdad road . |
| 17 | Water dripped from his elbow where it bent , holding the phone up to his ear . |
| 18 | Quite apart from the fact that it is ludicrous to compare the persons of Baron Thyssen and of Mr Khalili as collectors , as also to compare the status of their collections ( Baron Thyssen is not proposing to buy and sell from his collection while it is on loan in Madrid ) , it is clear from the information we are publishing in this issue , that the rental of the Thyssen Collection was a luxury Britain could have ill afforded , and not a ‘ lost opportunity ’ . |
| 19 | A bib had been tied around Bissell 's neck to collect the raw , liquid plaster which oozed from his mouth where it congealed and hardened . |
| 20 | A man was released from his car after it crashed in Longford Road , Middlesbrough , shortly before 8pm last night . |
| 21 | Nigel Cramer had had time to warn Quinn , speaking from his car as it sped towards Scotland Yard . |
| 22 | The air smelt of damp and cement , but was not unpleasant , and round the bend from our tunnel where it was joined by the library tunnel the air was much fresher . |