Example sentences of "i [vb past] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | And that , the answers I got from Government was , use a voluntary body , they do n't have to pay that . |
| 5 | And I helped him out with money I got from Dad . |
| 6 | Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad . |
| 7 | I moved from ground level to tower block level , which produced a dynamic image more in keeping with a 20th century view of city life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 10 | For eighteen months or more I suffered from chest spasms or a form of acute asthma . |
| 11 | In the first stages , the first winter , I do n't remember feeling cold at all ; or , at least , I do n't remember that I suffered from cold any more than anyone else did . |
| 12 | It would be an exaggeration to say I suffered from morning sickness , but my suspicions were certainly aroused when I began to feel a little queasy in the early part of the day . |
| 13 | You know , the difficulty of getting up to the flats , i you know I I suffered from arthritis , and er you know i it was quite a strenuous business to get from the ground up to our own flat . |
| 14 | Now the police authorities a and the local authorities and the magistrates may be thought to be indulging in special preening , but I do assure Your Lordships that they really are not alone in expressing their anxieties er about the er er er this bill and what it proposes , for example , if I may , I would like to refer to a letter which I received from Justice , chaired by my Noble Friend Lord Alexander of and with his Vice-chairman er er Lord and er they say as an all-party human rights organisation , Justice considers that the composition of police authorities is an important constitutional issue effecting the independence of policing . |
| 15 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 16 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 19 | He never had anything to do with me until I graduated from college nearly two years back now . |
| 20 | I walked from Mill to get that job . |
| 21 | Next day I walked from house to house again , looking in vain for work . |
| 22 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 23 | One afternoon in 1978 , I returned from Tyre after spending 12 hours in the city under Israeli shellfire . |
| 24 | The following Sunday , when I returned from safari , there was Vitalis sitting under a tree with his little group . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Well , I , I heard from Inspector yesterday . |
| 27 | ‘ I worked from home and took Elliot with me to see clients . |
| 28 | ‘ It would probably be best if I started from square one , ’ the contact opened the proceedings by saying . |
| 29 | This time , instead of trying to make and sell another company 's robot , I started from scratch . |
| 30 | All you young people as you pass by Pray on my grave now cast an eye Beware of false lovers and their friends I died from poison you may depend . ’ |