Example sentences of "i [verb] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 2 | I mean from rig to rig things work differently and I mean on on Piper , I would say there were probably things that could have been tightened up but then again I do n't think they were part and parcel of what happened and there on July the sixth . |
| 3 | Still not worried , still sliding smoothly through the crowds , feeling as elusive as a shadow , I passed from night-spot to night-spot . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you must remember , Mr McKillop , that the information I got from Elsie on that topic was n't given to me all at one time . |
| 5 | I moved from Women to God , ’ he explained to Kate . |
| 6 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 7 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 8 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 9 | For example , in Europe Type I occurs from July until September and Type II from March to May . |
| 10 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 11 | On August 13th 1925 , I sailed from England on the good ship Sophocles , bound for Sydney via the Cape . |
| 12 | And I sailed from Bombay on the eleventh November |
| 13 | ‘ The day 's events are made all the more hectic by the many telephone calls and queries I receive from members of the public , fellow officers and councillors . |
| 14 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 15 | I ca n't remember much of what I wore when I arrived from Harehills in 1950 . |
| 16 | I arrived from Germany in a refugee transport , escaping from the Nazi oppression in 1938 . |
| 17 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 18 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 19 | I graduated from Salford in June 1987 and came straight out here to teach in a privately-owned Academy . |
| 20 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 21 | I know from conversations with my father , and his close homosexual friends whom he would have confided in , that they are unfounded . ’ |
| 22 | I walked from Newington to Waverley with minimally packed rucksack — I was getting the hang of this backpacking . |
| 23 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 24 | Next day I walked from house to house again , looking in vain for work . |
| 25 | In past-life regression will I progress from childhood to adulthood ? |
| 26 | I glanced from Janice to Gav and back again , while Janice looked at me , lip trembling . |
| 27 | One afternoon in 1978 , I returned from Tyre after spending 12 hours in the city under Israeli shellfire . |
| 28 | When I returned from Libya via Egypt , just after the Munich crisis I at once got in touch with Eliot , and put my proposal before him . |
| 29 | ‘ I heard from friends of mine that Hezbollah had lost faith in him , that he was talking to and seeing too many people . |
| 30 | A story which I heard from Dad about his days at Charlton-All-Saints brought a chuckle from him as he told it but , at the time , the occasion must have been almost tragic . |