Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been leading the life of Riley since I got away from the place . |
| 3 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
| 4 | I got up from the table . |
| 5 | I got up from the grass and made my way back to the orchard as Jerry started to drop his shells in the dust cloud left in the wake of the speeding jeeps . |
| 6 | When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed . |
| 7 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 8 | I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ . |
| 9 | I saw him in my office at ten-thirty , as soon as I got back from the P.M. " |
| 10 | And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons . |
| 11 | When I got back from the war it was all gone destroyed by full employment — not that I 'm regretting that , you understand . |
| 12 | I moved away from the beam , right ? |
| 13 | I moved away from the bus post , they needed the support more than I did . |
| 14 | I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet . |
| 15 | In the end I went along and scraped a pass , largely to avoid the horrendous scenes with my parents that would ensue if I came away from the temple of learning empty-handed . |
| 16 | " What 's the matter , James ? " he asked as I came away from the phone . |
| 17 | I came away from the workshop with ideas for introducing total quality into education , plus curiosity about the practicality of BS 5750 procedures in a school . |
| 18 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
| 19 | ‘ I came straight from the shop . |
| 20 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 21 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 22 | When I came back from the bathroom , I looked at my watch . |
| 23 | Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war |
| 24 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |
| 25 | I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital . |
| 26 | I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts . |
| 27 | I came home from the hospital one day to find Johnnie all alone and desperate for physio , lying on the sitting-room floor crying his eyes out and starving hungry . |
| 28 | One morning I strolled home from the supermarket at the end of the road and made myself a cup of coffee . |
| 29 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 30 | When all the girls left the schoolroom at five o'clock , I climbed down from the chair and sat on the floor . |