Example sentences of "i [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have ended up with my children in a Women 's Hostel , still black and blue after the battering I got from the drunken unfaithful bully I was stupid enough to marry . |
| 2 | So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at . |
| 3 | I came from the very opposite . |
| 4 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 5 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
| 6 | Tiring of the crowd , I climbed from the reeking water . |
| 7 | I contracted from the local community unit a nursing team that would be led by general practitioners and would form a true practice based primary health care team . |
| 8 | It 's a concept I adapted from the American presidential campaigns . |
| 9 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 10 | I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor . |
| 11 | I heard from the white-glowing crucible of cutting-edge technological advancement that our humble kitchen had become . |
| 12 | ‘ I heard from the equine laboratory in Newmarket . |
| 13 | I rang from the nearest box to the station where they controlled the ambulances . |
| 14 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
| 16 | I knew from the thick fragrance that filled the air that it was Mrs. Constantine . |
| 17 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 18 | I think I copied from the old lot of |
| 19 | The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day . |
| 20 | In purely military terms it was an amazing success reflecting great credit on Britain 's small but all-professional armed forces — which were such a contrast to the much bigger conscript forces I remembered from the 1950s . |
| 21 | One was a very nice garment made out of a kind of silk which Mother and I bought from the secondhand clothes lady who ran a stall in Barnard Castle . |
| 22 | Furthermore , while inquiring into possible alternative schemes , I learned from the managing director of Norwich Union Health Care that the seemingly more reasonable ‘ express care policy ’ I was about to take out was barred to doctors . |
| 23 | At one point I traversed from the red bolts ( off route ) to the green bolts ( also off route ) without finding the silver bolts I was supposed to be on . |
| 24 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 25 | ‘ In the second week , I knew what I wanted from the allowed foods , my body told me what I needed . |
| 26 | The green child in me slipped from the old woman . |