Example sentences of "and from it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , he returned to the desk , where he opened one of the smaller drawers , and from it counted out a number of shiny coins … totalling four guineas in all . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , where else ? ’ she said as she , too , rose from the settle and returned to the couch , from where she watched him go to the box that was standing on the end of the sideboard , and from it take a piece of silver , then button his coat across his broad chest , take his cap from his pocket and , having put it on at an angle , salute her , saying , ‘ Your servant , madam . ’ |
| 3 | In AD 208 the Emperor Severus took personal charge of a fleet into the Firth of Forth and from it led an expedition across Fife , over the Tay valley , and on into the ever inhospitable north to put an end to these depredations . |
| 4 | She rested on the boulder and from it looked down to where the river ran shallow and offered a breeding ground to a lively population of insects . |
| 5 | Achmore is entered and from it goes a narrow road to Plockton and Kyle of Lochalsh on a journey of sustained delight . |
| 6 | Just have a go at producing that graph and from it find out what is W when four have been taken off er when ten have been taken off and when fifteen have been taken off . |
| 7 | He took a cardboard box and from it drew a toy consisting of two monkeys with bright brown fur and boot-button eyes . |
| 8 | The Keeper was carrying a portable cage and from it peered an eagle . |
| 9 | You can only see interpersonal behaviour and from it interpret the state of the relationship . |
| 10 | Like an archaeologist who digs up a tiny shard in the desert and from it extrapolates a whole civilisation , so Simon Charsley lifts an inconsequential marzipan confection and uses it to illuminate the shifting sands of Western civilisation . |