Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had emerged from apathy into active aggression , and my housemistress 's report for the term includes the advice , ‘ Sheila must learn to curb her natural exuberance . ’ |
| 2 | I 've suffered from tinnitus for ten years . |
| 3 | Many 's the time I 've slipped from top to bottom of the ladder , making a noise like the crack of doom , which was not however , sufficient to wake them ( as I could tell by their uninterrupted snores ) . |
| 4 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've walked from Glasgow since noon . ‘ |
| 6 | I 've driven from California to Colorado — this is not an imaginary answer . |
| 7 | " I have gone from failure to failure , with France , alas , the loser . |
| 8 | I tell you , Minnie , I have fallen from favour of late and through no fault of my own , whereas my husband and son rest high in Mrs Browning 's estimation . |
| 9 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 10 | From what I have gathered from talking to other business people they have also seen an increase in business . |
| 11 | Oh , Benedict , I have learned from Rose about your mother , and I see that my hair is the key , but — ’ |
| 12 | I have read from cover to cover with great interest , and now hasten to enclose my subscription . |
| 13 | I have thought from time to time that I would like to write and let you know how much those lessons meant to me — and now I am ! |
| 14 | On the other hand , I have needed from time to time to provide a certain amount of background , because the progress of a friendship can not be traced otherwise than by describing attendant circumstances . |
| 15 | Richmond I have known from childhood as an incomparably pretty town , castle keep , sloping irregular polygonal square , houses and big pubs grouped round like something in a model . |
| 16 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 17 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 18 | She 'd driven from Newcastle to virtually to with the choke on ! |
| 19 | You 've heard from friends in Kuwait recently ? |
| 20 | And you 've heard from Ken in respect of one seven six , he 's not prepared to withdraw , so therefore the C E C are recommending opposition . |
| 21 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 22 | She had gone from happiness to misery and back again in what seemed no more than hours , and the speed of the changes had left her with a sense of unreality that she found impossible to shake off . |
| 23 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 24 | Remember , all her life she had wandered from place to place , sleeping in a tent or under the stars . |
| 25 | Ever since she had learned from Rose of his mother 's red hair , she had fondly permitted her idle daydream , her secret wishes , to grow and flower as if indeed they existed . |
| 26 | Gwenellen was at tea , and reading a letter she had had from Aline by the second post . |
| 27 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 28 | We do not know at what date Matilda had gone to Wilton , but probably she had come from Scotland as a young girl with her aunt Christina in 1086 to be educated at Wilton . |
| 29 | There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return . |
| 30 | No I do n't remember that , because we , we 'd be , we 'd moved from Street into Street and er I went to Road School first and er of course er my mother 's mother , that 's my grandmother , she was living with us then she used to live in Street . |