Example sentences of "[pron] i [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 2 | ‘ The movies are true , ’ screamed my eyes from the back of the yellow can which I took from the airport . |
| 3 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 4 | The rain which I collect from the downpipe often has debris in it from the guttering . |
| 5 | The group suggested some amendments to a draft motion which I proposed from the chair ; the amended motion was then signed en bloc with only two colleagues declining . |
| 6 | I 've got a beautiful set of little Pierrot clowns , which I bought from the art department of the last mini-series I worked on — Golden Fiddles . |
| 7 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 8 | Instead of using wide elastic in the waistband I used ‘ Peta-Stretch ’ stretch petersham which I buy from the haberdashery department of my local store . |
| 9 | When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days . |
| 10 | The one I chose from the list also belongs to a private insurance scheme . |
| 11 | What I gather from the photo reproduced in Il Giornale dell'Arte is that my sin consists of using hanging cloths . |
| 12 | ‘ From … from what I gathered from the nurse it was n't as serious as they at first thought . |
| 13 | What I saw from the air was a new runway , freshly mown and very inviting . |
| 14 | The kind of woman I 'm interested in is adult enough to recognise what I want from the outset . |