Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a message I got from a tame Man U supporter on the subject we are all discussing . |
| 2 | ‘ There , trapped for ninety minutes in the sauna , I changed from a devout Catholic housewife into a raving nymphomaniac . ’ |
| 3 | A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep . |
| 4 | I came from a rough area so that 's the way it worked . |
| 5 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was a thunderstorm and I struggled from a deep sleep . |
| 10 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 11 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |
| 12 | A radiologist I remembered from a previous visit with my now long-gone kidney came in , looked at me and smiled . |
| 13 | Later that same day , I awoke from a restoring sleep to find rain pouring down outside , the lake nearly invisible . |
| 14 | She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989 . |
| 15 | Beth was always very careful to put a safety screen across the fire , but ever since the tragedy that had taken Maisie , she suffered from a real dread of accidents . |
| 16 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 17 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 18 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 19 | Lucille Castineau had lived all her twenty-seven years in the Norman countryside and , though she came from a noble family , she proudly considered herself to be a farm woman . |
| 20 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 21 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 22 | She came from a well-known north London family , and was the widow of a proctor . |
| 23 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 24 | Get everything practically that you needed from a black book . |
| 25 | It suggests that a human being could in theory obtain all the food he or she needed from a well-tended patio ! |
| 26 | Her eyes were clear of tears ; she looked from a great height down into the park and saw its order and its beauty so determinedly brought forth . |
| 27 | She gasped from a sudden tearing hunger deep inside her and he smiled with his mouth but not his eyes . |
| 28 | When Schiffer arrived at the Academy Awards to mark her debut as Revlon 's new star , she emerged from a double stretch limo , accompanied by suitable escort , Dan Moriarty , Revlon 's vice-president . |
| 29 | She blossomed from a precocious teenager in films like The Wizard Of Oz into a charismatically attractive woman with towering talent , able to sing , dance and act like no one before or since . |
| 30 | For , at some point during the night , she awoke from a restless sleep , to find her face and pillow damp with tears . |