Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 2 | I made from a proms concert ‘ sometime in the '70s ’ — featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink ( just the usual orchestral Suite ) . |
| 3 | Here is a message I got from a tame Man U supporter on the subject we are all discussing . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah , well , they made things better of course in the Thirties and these I found from a plaster house that closed down , they were used for Chanel 's stand at the Universelle Expo in 1937 , jolie , no ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There , trapped for ninety minutes in the sauna , I changed from a devout Catholic housewife into a raving nymphomaniac . ’ |
| 6 | First , a trick I learnt from a newspaper article about a discovery in psychology . |
| 7 | A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep . |
| 8 | I do n't come from an evangelical background , I came from a raw environment straight into the contentions of the Big Man and you could n't have been too extreme . |
| 9 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 10 | I came from a pretty poorish background and now it 's nice to be able to give my parents money , and let them do things like go on holiday . |
| 11 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 12 | I came from a rough area so that 's the way it worked . |
| 13 | I came from a B-Cat prison where I had my own basin and toilet . |
| 14 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 15 | She was another young conservative , I guessed from a rather sheltered background . |
| 16 | All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper . |
| 17 | In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing . |
| 18 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 19 | Last night I returned from a stint on the 1990 ITV Telethon , with steam issuing from my every pore . |
| 20 | A few days later I returned from a lengthy scout round the area to find a woman in those dark clothes in the kitchen putting cups on the table . |
| 21 | I heard from a neighbour |
| 22 | I heard from a cop |
| 23 | ‘ I heard from a friend this morning — she 'd getting hitched to some chap in Northamptonshire who 's due to inherit his uncle 's title . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 25 | There was a thunderstorm and I struggled from a deep sleep . |
| 26 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 27 | Well I can say personally that I went from a size twelve to a twenty and its a medical problem , its the , not an eating one though , you know any thing to with any diet or any thing like that , completely medical so er it takes a bit of coping with when you 've been slim and then all of a sudden you have this weight that , no diet will remove . |
| 28 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |
| 29 | I went from a er boy 's school and all that that implied at the time in England , strict discipline , uniforms , that sort of thing , to er High School , a mixed High School in Ohio where the atmosphere was totally different , much more relaxed , much more friendly . |
| 30 | A radiologist I remembered from a previous visit with my now long-gone kidney came in , looked at me and smiled . |