Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] my [noun] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'd extracted my head from the carrying rope , Kāli untied the bale and started scooping up armloads of pine-needles and throwing them to the top of the pile . |
| 2 | I 'd left my pension from the Navy , but I 'd gone into what was then known as the police , er familiarly dockyard police . |
| 3 | In recent years , I have preferred launching my attack from the bank , rather than from the boat ; and even in high winds , when most of the loch is churned up , clear patches of water may be found along the lee shore . |
| 4 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 5 | As the 1992 Art Materials Exhibition looms over the horizon , I would like to share my experience from the last exhibition and make a plea for the next . |
| 6 | This meant I faced a five-hour train journey , with two changes , and then — having retrieved my bicycle from the guard 's van — a fifteen-mile uphill ride . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have to get my things from the camp , and say goodbye to the Lennoxes and a few others . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You know I can not abide to light my Woodbine from the campfire . ’ |
| 9 | For the remainder of the carol I was on tenterhooks , not daring to take my eyes from the lectern . |
| 10 | As soon as I 've collected my things from the boat I 'll catch the first plane home and — ’ |
| 11 | Well I I think I I 've had my doubts from the start and I you have you 're iffy about it and I do n't want anybody whose iffy generally does n't make it with us . |
| 12 | I resolved to assert my authority from the beginning , or I would be trampled underfoot by even this most junior member of the Goreng clan . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been trying to divert my attention from the box ! |
| 14 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 15 | I prefer to shield my face from the sun , but find that most sunblocks cause me to colour . |
| 16 | I have timed my departure from the Cabinet Office to leave seven minutes to walk to Charing Cross , and then another two ( no more ! ) before my train leaves — if , of course , it happens to be running . |
| 17 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |