Example sentences of "i came [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 2 | When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed . |
| 3 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 4 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |
| 5 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 6 | I came back from a business trip to find her gone . ’ |
| 7 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 8 | I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital . |
| 9 | When I came back from the bathroom , I looked at my watch . |
| 10 | I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts . |
| 11 | Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war |
| 12 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |