Example sentences of "i from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how far am I from the signpost ? ’ |
| 2 | Preserve me from the self-confidence of a famous late middle age . |
| 3 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 4 | As I recrossed into Djibouti , villagers sympathetic to the SNM , or just wanting money , hid me from the patrols . |
| 5 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 6 | There were about twelve or more German prisoners , all of them staring at me from the gloom of the interior . |
| 7 | My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps , suspended in midair by anti-gravity . |
| 8 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 9 | ‘ They were on the look-out for a female DJ so everyone was very up for me from the word go . |
| 10 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 11 | ( ‘ Your good influence and help has sometimes draw me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them . ' ) |
| 12 | Your good influence and help has sometimes drawn me from the enwrapping pleasure of scenes which before held me alone with them … |
| 13 | When I protested , they assured me that there would be no question of hiding me from the crowd . |
| 14 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 15 | He should have sent the child to me from the moment she could feed herself , Roirbak thought , sure Ari had been contaminated and spoiled by the life she 'd led at Taler 's Bump . |
| 16 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 17 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 18 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 19 | Already I have the feeling that I 'm a bit too thin — that Anna , whose house I am at , will say that I was never fat in the first place : ‘ Oh , you 're all right , skinny ribs ’ ; that mixture of dismissal and envy she uses , excluding me from the problems of other girls , from real problems like her fat thighs , or her backside that could do with ‘ half an hour on a bacon slicer ’ , as she puts it . |
| 20 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 21 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 22 | It 's fun really , because I can enjoy myself , I 've got no pressure on me from the party to succeed , ’ he said gamely . |
| 23 | Warhol was utterly and completely worthless for me from the word go , something in the history of fashion perhaps but nothing to do with art whatsoever . |
| 24 | The voice of your brother 's blood is crying to me from the ground . |
| 25 | You still owe me from the last time . |
| 26 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 27 | This last point is certainly not irrelevant , since the commemorative scroll sent to me from the Palace names Leslie as of the Parachute Regiment ; and under this unit did he appear for the last time in the Army List . |
| 28 | All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks . |
| 29 | I brought the vehicle with me from the UK . |
| 30 | Mr Lawler has sent me from The Haven to collect the thirty brace of grouse he ordered , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |