Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 2 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 3 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 4 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 5 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 6 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 7 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 8 | I freed myself from the antiquated strait jacket of his verbose speech patterns . |
| 9 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 10 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |