Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] me from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His manager Alan McColm said : ‘ Martin phoned me from the airport to say what had happened and he was furious . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I did n't lack support ; the Spanish public knew me from the European Indoor . |
| 10 | Jane Brompton called me from the Betty Ford clinic last night and it 's absolutely 100% sure . |