Example sentences of "i [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 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 5 | I came from a rough area so that 's the way it worked . |
| 6 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 12 | There was a thunderstorm and I struggled from a deep sleep . |
| 13 | I knew from an early age his music and his work as a conductor . |
| 14 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 15 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 16 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |
| 17 | A radiologist I remembered from a previous visit with my now long-gone kidney came in , looked at me and smiled . |
| 18 | Later that same day , I awoke from a restoring sleep to find rain pouring down outside , the lake nearly invisible . |