Example sentences of "[vb past] i from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said there were the that county record form and this man asked me from the museum that handled it if he could send them back to erm to Wiltshire . |
| 2 | His manager Alan McColm said : ‘ Martin phoned me from the airport to say what had happened and he was furious . |
| 3 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 4 | 'T WAS that , mama reckoned , which preserved me from the pestilence ! ’ |
| 5 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 6 | As I recrossed into Djibouti , villagers sympathetic to the SNM , or just wanting money , hid me from the patrols . |
| 7 | He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me . |
| 8 | I could have sat and stared all evening but Benjamin suddenly realised the drift of my eyes as well as my lechery and , at the appropriate time , seized me by the arm and hustled me from the hall . |
| 9 | We shall travel the world together as poor beggarly men carrying our message to the planet , and everywhere we shall be spurned and everywhere we shall be glorified , and a light shall shine about him like to the light which shone upon the day when he raised me from the dead . |
| 10 | Looking from one to the other , she asked slowly , ‘ You followed me from the ferry ? ’ |
| 11 | You were the one who followed me from the ferry ! ’ |
| 12 | It was the same man who followed me from the doctor 's surgery . |
| 13 | That relieved me from the embarrassment of having to ask for it in front of the stoical poker-faced brigade of women who often assembled in the shop in their curlers and headsquares to pass the time of day . |
| 14 | Jane Brompton called me from the Betty Ford clinic last night and it 's absolutely 100% sure . |
| 15 | And something like hit me from the inside , |
| 16 | So I left , and as I walked back to my car , the man watched me from the little steel balcony upon which Kanaan Abu Khadra had played as a boy . |
| 17 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't lack support ; the Spanish public knew me from the European Indoor . |
| 21 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 22 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 23 | And while I 'm focusing the overhead , this is the er , this is a postcard that er , a student did this course some years ago , sent me from the U S. |
| 24 | They remembered me from the previous year too . |
| 25 | They remembered me from the old days . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He gently lifted my body up to take the weight off my wing and then freed me from the trap . |
| 27 | And I would be always be with John in the stable and I got until I got into er some danger walking er underneath a horses legs and he 'd he 'd send me out banned me from the stable and shut the door . |
| 28 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 29 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 30 | 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 . |