Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I am invited from time to time to sow the seeds of Medau , and last time Brown Owl allowed me to present each girl with a Medau leaflet . |
2 | The announcement was first made by my right hon. Friend in the House of Lords during consideration of the emergency provisions Bill — as it then was — I am speaking from memory , but I believe that it was last May . |
3 | A day or two after my arrival he said to me , ‘ In nine months ’ time I am retiring from missionary service . |
4 | ‘ Today , let's imagine that I 'm a prisoner and I 'm escaping from prison by boat , ’ said Anne . |
5 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |
6 | My recollection , and I 'm speaking from memory , and I could be wrong , but I think that the last time I looked at lists of the various companies in Telford , where I 'm obviously more concerned , not , well , that 's not to mean I 'm not concerned elsewhere , but I 'm more familiar with respect to them , my recollection is that the more American than anything else on that site . |
7 | I 'm speaking from experience . |
8 | How could you fancy ringing up your potential clients , and say , Hello , it 's Carol , I 'm calling from Abbey Death . |
9 | because at that meeting you can imagine that twenty people gathering then you end up not really making any decisions , far too many people , there was a lot discussed and aired and it concerns expressed and it was a case , and I 'm going from recollection here , it was really a case of let's go away and think about it and calm down and look at it rationally |
10 | ‘ I 'm suffering from stage fright . ’ |
11 | Deep breath , hold it and so on until I 'm photographed from neck to thigh . |
12 | I was moved from home to home . |
13 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
14 | My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided . |
15 | So as soon as I was released from prison I done more crimes . |
16 | I do n't think I am fully recovered , and today I am no taller or heavier than I was when I was released from hospital in 1983 . |
17 | I was washed from top to toe in Mrs Joe 's usual violent manner , and handed over , in my tightest Sunday clothes , to Mr Pumblechook . |
18 | DNase I was purchased from Sigma , dissolved in 20mM NaCl containing 1mM MgCl 2 at a concentration of 7200 units/ml and stored at -20°C . |
19 | I was truanting from school when I was about nine , and to be truthful my mother said I was totally out of hand . |
20 | HAVING had the misfortune to break my ankle , I was discharged from hospital after a three-week stay . |
21 | I had to go to the doctor in the end and he told me I was suffering from malnutrition . |
22 | It would be the way of our century to say that I was suffering from time-shock , no doubt ; since our personality is largely built and buttressed by our environment , and the assumptions environment and society force upon us , one has but to tip away that buttress and at once the personality is threatened with dissolution . |
23 | I was suffering from shock at losing Snowy . |
24 | I was suffering from diphtheria , most of the adult staff were women , and nobody was explaining what was happening to me . |
25 | I assumed I was suffering from dandruff but it has n't cleared up . |
26 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
27 | ‘ I ca n't say I care for the idea of you two discussing me behind my back , but if you must know I was suffering from reaction , ’ said Leonora with dignity . |
28 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |