Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] from experience " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone is free to decide that life is too short for such unriddlings ; others ( I speak from experience ) may develop a taste for them . |
| 2 | The chronologically first and formally most decorous of his critical books , The Spirit of Romance ( originally 1910 ) , can very profitably be used — I speak from experience — as a manual for able undergraduates ; especially if taken along with Confucius to Cummings , the anthology that many decades later Pound compiled along with Marcella Spann . |
| 3 | I speak from experience ! |
| 4 | It is all too easy ( I speak from experience ) when you hit on a sequence of events that seems funny , to get the bit between your teeth and run on and on . |
| 5 | I speak from experience , as my wife and I had to turn back and miss the December 1990 meeting . |
| 6 | I speak from experience , having met many Gartree governors . |
| 7 | You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience . |
| 8 | Er the speed they come out of that bend is unbelievable and I speak from experience Madam Chairman because my daughter lives on that very corner where the bend is and er |
| 9 | Since I know from experience that a post is visible from a mile and a half , it should appear in the distance at 61 minutes past eleven . ’ |
| 10 | I always find good company in kitchens , and I know from experience I 'll have a welcome down below . |
| 11 | It 's easy enough to say this : I know from experience how difficult it is in practice ! |
| 12 | ‘ But I know from experience that in cup ties current status counts for little its a question of what you do on the day . |
| 13 | I know from experience that one of the frustrations of being head of the Children 's Book Foundation is that however bright and brilliant Julia Eccleshare 's Children 's Books of the Year is , no one seems to buy it . |
| 14 | I know from experience that if I approached their hives with scented lotion on my hair it would make them angry . ’ |
| 15 | I know from experience that fear can be handled if you refuse to let it take over . |
| 16 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 17 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
| 18 | I know from experience because of the jumping , she 's had accidents before . |
| 19 | on now , I think it 's a bit like factory inspectors , and I talk from experience on this , er th o i me , everything gets cleaned up before the inspectors |
| 20 | When these methods work well ( and I write from experience ) such schools are places of tremendous enthusiasm for learning in which the great majority of children make rapid progress in academic studies and in social skills . |
| 21 | In practice — and I write from experience — the Act has been under-resourced . |
| 22 | In other words , many executives in firms experiencing economic difficulties and who know from experience that the inspectorate mainly imposes administrative sanctions will calculate that their best interests lie in not conforming to factory health , safety , and welfare regulations ; instead they will gather their excuses and get on with the violations . |
| 23 | If you know from experience that you are the over-anxious type you must take yourself firmly in hand and allot a fixed ration of time for revision , the rest of the day being spent in healthy exercise . |
| 24 | The best way to ensure you learn from experience is to adopt a discipline which forces you to complete all the stages in the learning cycle . |
| 25 | We know from experience that many factors — some of which may never be apparent to outside observers — determine whether a prisoner of conscience is released . |
| 26 | Rommel , indeed , put the blame on the Italians for leaking secrets : ‘ We know from experience , ’ he wrote in his diary , ‘ that Italian headquarters can not keep things to themselves , and that everything they wireless to Rome gets to British ears . ’ |
| 27 | I want to hear how politicians plan to remove all nuclear weapons now that we know from experience — following the Gulf War — that nuclear weapons are not a deterrent . |
| 28 | ‘ We know from experience that MBIs have always carried a far greater risk than MBOs . |
| 29 | Again using the Solent area as a practical example , we know from experience that strong winds between north and north-east will significantly reduce tide levels . |
| 30 | ‘ We know what we are aiming for and we know from experience how far players can go if they are prepared to work . |