Example sentences of "[to-vb] from my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I was able to escape from my orange box and ferret around among the other barrows , I quickly discovered that he was reckoned by the locals to be the finest trader in the East End . |
| 2 | The thousands of children who are born every year , we do n't even know in this country how many there are , because the figures the ca n't be kept , er er and these tend to be children erm born of er , anonymous donors and and I think that as a society we are wreaking such problems for the future , we 're creating secrets for families , and I would really like to hear from my fellow women here about that . |
| 3 | What a pleasure it always is to hear from my sole mate Mollie O'Finn from Bo'ness . |
| 4 | Nor , to judge from their efforts , do I see that I have much more to expect from my own people . |
| 5 | The former nurse said : ‘ It was probably just as well I knew what to do from my nursing days . ’ |
| 6 | With a warm fire , and a hot meal , I began to recover from my unpleasant experiences . |
| 7 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |