Example sentences of "i [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah 've come for mah van , Duncan , ’ I drawled from the garage doorway . |
| 2 | So the little sketchbook doodles I made from the car might be all that is needed : a few slight marks pointing to the lack of incident in a country where you can travel a long way without seeming to get anywhere — which is what I felt about my own artistic journey . |
| 3 | ‘ Dr Vaughan , I crept from the house like a thief to avoid the very fuss you 're making right now . |
| 4 | The hon. Lady seems quite unaware of the fact that , not long ago , I announced from the Dispatch Box what is effectively a halving of our sub-strategic nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | W. S. I operated from the Dog and Gun Police Station . |
| 6 | ‘ The reaction I got from the Twin Cities race was really out of proportion , ’ he says with appropriate modesty . |
| 7 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 8 | And then the other one is the one that I got from the library by Luhmann . |
| 9 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 10 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 11 | Could have done without the lip I got from the scouse stallholders though ( sample : ‘ The League Title cost a fortune in them days … ’ ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Much nicer than I expected from the particulars , ’ she added . |
| 13 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 14 | I shouted from the depths of my hurt . |
| 15 | On 28 July 1930 I disembarked from the Sorrento at Constanza in the Black Sea . |
| 16 | I moved from the window and stood over a gaping crack in the floorboards and listened hard . |
| 17 | In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in . |
| 18 | I rose from the table , went into the cell and flopped down on the hard wooden bed and was asleep almost immediately . |
| 19 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 20 | I wandered from the wheelwright to the harness-maker and the basket-weaver before entering the café . |
| 21 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 22 | The group suggested some amendments to a draft motion which I proposed from the chair ; the amended motion was then signed en bloc with only two colleagues declining . |
| 23 | The conclusion I drew from the chart is that , if it demonstrated that St Johann im Pongau has a better system of queue prevention than Meribel has , there is clearly something wrong with the demonstration . |
| 24 | Later in the day I learnt from the Canadian that we were not in the main part of the camp at all , but in the cells or ‘ cooler , awaiting interrogation . |
| 25 | My parents loved each other very much , and I learnt from the example of their love . |
| 26 | When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days . |
| 27 | As I woke from the dream I heard his glass eye roll like a marble across the cold kitchen floor . |
| 28 | I came from the university — had a guest lecture to give . ’ |
| 29 | I have been here since I came from the hospital and while I was there Maria sat by you . |
| 30 | I judged from the area occupied by this edifice that the apartment I wanted would be on the second floor . |