Example sentences of "[verb] i from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 2 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 3 | Who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? ’ and answered it ‘ I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord . ’ |
| 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 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 6 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 7 | Ca n't hang me from the yard-arm , though . |
| 8 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 9 | His manager Alan McColm said : ‘ Martin phoned me from the airport to say what had happened and he was furious . |
| 10 | Preserve me from the self-confidence of a famous late middle age . |
| 11 | Despite this , the new president of the CSIC , José Mato , decided in November to exclude me from the examination and to cancel the competition . |
| 12 | The text of the letter , which was released in full , expressed regret for misleading the officer by failing to disclose the depth of his opposition to the war , and also thanked him for " saving me from the draft " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Monster continues to scream as if it would blast me from the cosmos . |
| 15 | One evening , when his golf match had been cancelled , he decided to drive down and collect me from the river . |
| 16 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 17 | 'T WAS that , mama reckoned , which preserved me from the pestilence ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Do you remember me from the City of the Horizon ? ’ |
| 19 | I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday . |
| 20 | There are fewer elephants about up here erm and er the issue that obviously concerns me from the development point of view is the is the time scale , is the process rather , that that the planning policy would im would imply . |
| 21 | Maybe the day will come when Mark will ring me from the museum and tell me that it 's been decided that I must add to the catalogue the pedigree of the wrapping or package in question : Ice lolly wrapper ‘ Captain Marvel ’ , Walls , 1985 , found , Whitechapel Road , EC , condition : poor . |
| 22 | Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the clinic , onto the green and into the car where Anita sits at the wheel . |
| 23 | After another moment or two , Crilly takes my arm and leads me from the pub . |
| 24 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The couple have lived at Girsby House at Girsby , near Hurworth , since 1963 and Mr Tholen says with conviction : ‘ Nothing will move me from the North-East , ’ citing his reasons as the ‘ incredibly friendly and outspoken people and the proximity of the countryside . ’ |
| 27 | If I 'd not blocked or she 'd not blocked out that time in that way , what would have happened is on the thirteenth , er , of the month , erm , Red would have called me from the Health and Safety Executive would have called me and said , Ricky we 've got er , a remedial leadership weekend on the top of Snowden , and er , on that , on the last weekend of the month , and we 've got a one hour slot for you , that 's just a golden opportunity . |
| 28 | Looking from one to the other , she asked slowly , ‘ You followed me from the ferry ? ’ |
| 29 | You were the one who followed me from the ferry ! ’ |
| 30 | It was the same man who followed me from the doctor 's surgery . |