Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 2 | I got from that shagger in Belfast . |
| 3 | some celery what I got fresh , I cooked some of that cos that 's what I got from that bloke |
| 4 | While I suffered from these dreams on my slab of rock , something woke me . |
| 5 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 6 | I decided from that moment to take him on . |
| 7 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 8 | But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted . |
| 9 | I knew from that moment that it was only a question of time — and perseverance on his part — before he would be completely cured . |
| 10 | His reply was he 'd do the same — so I knew from that moment onwards he was the man for me . ’ |
| 11 | I understood from those words that the lives of all honest men on the ship depended on me alone ! |
| 12 | I learned from that outing that there is in top-level racing , as well as intelligence , a physical dimension which is vastly important . |
| 13 | ( I learned from this experience that rigor mortis takes much longer to set in than I had supposed ; quite some time , in fact . ) |
| 14 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 15 | I emerged from that meeting , like everyone else , covered in the smell and stains of tobacco smoke because 60 or 70 per cent . |
| 16 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 17 | Fand whispered , ‘ Long ago I drank from this pool . |
| 18 | The most startling insight I gained from this meeting was the proportion of overall growth in housing provision being made to satisfy migration from England . |
| 19 | So type plus two less thans , the name of the file , which is sales one , two greater thans , and a cell address , C twenty five and then enter and that number one five four is , you got from that file sales one , in cell C twenty five , and I can copy that formula to the right , just like any other formula , I can copy it . |
| 20 | What what where did you move to when you moved from that school ? |
| 21 | Worst of all , one auxiliary , feeding a number of people , was going up and down the rows of bowls on bed-tables with one spoon which she filled from each person 's bowl and put into each person 's mouth before going onto someone else with the same spoon to repeat the process . |
| 22 | She returned from that visit almost sprightly ( desperate ? ) in her attempts to please and to ingratiate herself into the household . |
| 23 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 24 | She knew from that moment she had to be a Salvation Army officer . |
| 25 | I did not find out how much she sold the garments for because she left me standing outside , but she always looked pleased when she emerged from these visits . |
| 26 | You drank from each goblet according to the season . |
| 27 | While royal pundits agreed that she appeared to have emerged victorious , getting all she wanted from this month 's separation from Prince Charles , there was one bleak scenario that darkened her horizon . |
| 28 | We argued from this Bench that the regulatory machinery for British Gas was totally inadequate and that the basis of the privatisation was wrong . |
| 29 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 30 | We extracted from each trial data for an analysis by intention to treat — that is , an analysis that retains all individuals within the group to which they were randomised , regardless of compliance . |