Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently he would stop on his walk around the teams on a Sunday , and at least on one occasion he advised me to break from the scrum more often ( in those days airmen scrum-halfs played to orders ) . |
| 2 | ‘ My father , Dewi Morgan taught me shoemaking from the time I was a little girl , ’ she said quickly , almost resentfully , ‘ and I 'm better at the work than many men . ’ |
| 3 | What little human warmth I required I garnered from the aunts and cousins , who still came to Cliff Top for their annual holiday . |
| 4 | Although I slipped in the odd prop or two , and tried to bend briefs towards my interests , on the whole I felt I watched from the sidelines as the plethora of ecology and natural history books of the 1980s appeared . |
| 5 | ‘ You gave me orders from the poop deck . |
| 6 | How did I recover from the debacle ? |
| 7 | Thus did I emerge from the night tunnel of restless body movement . |
| 8 | I was at the Madness gig at Finsbury Park the other week and Vince had me removed from the premises ! |
| 9 | I remember when I started my training I work with this girl and I said where 'd you come from and she said I come from the most boring town in Britain , I says where Grantham ? , she says yeah , I says is it boring , she says yeah huh , it is |
| 10 | ‘ It was then reported in the Press that Millwall wanted me fired from the station , ’ explained Baker , who insisted Rioch was the ‘ worst-ever ’ Lions manager . |