Example sentences of "i was [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 2 | I was called from the incident room by the desk sergeant who recognised her . |
| 3 | The last time I was called from here it was a false alarm . ’ |
| 4 | I am entering my true life , the life I was prevented from leading — well , that I prevented myself from leading by my stupidity , my incredible folly . |
| 5 | ‘ I was n't skulking , I was sheltering from the rain . |
| 6 | At an earlier stage in my career I was transferred from one division of ICI to a new one . |
| 7 | I was transferred from one office to another before being shown into an office whose occupant was asleep in an armchair by the window . |
| 8 | I was watching from a deck chair by the pool of my health club , on the top floor of a highrise that provided a panoramic view of all Paris . |
| 9 | I was watching from high up , from the upper part of the grandstand , above the Clubhouse floor to which the owners had returned in a chattering flock to watch the race . |
| 10 | I was watching from the kitchen window , as he went up to her , and , supposing that no one else could see him , kissed her . |
| 11 | I was moved from home to home . |
| 12 | The next morning I was a day older , no wiser and put in a bad mood right from the off because I was dragged from the Land of Nod kicking and screaming ( well , grunting and stumbling actually ) by the Celtic Twilight hammering on my door . |
| 13 | In those dark days when I was recovering from my knee injury I 'd play a video of an England match and upset myself all over again . |
| 14 | Of course , I was insulated from the more unpleasant aspects of city life , wallowing in the luxury of the Savoy , being waited on hand and foot . |
| 15 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 16 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 17 | ‘ My mother , ’ said Bernard , suddenly , talkative at last , ‘ is a mean-spirited , disgusting bitch ; a big fat mammy , and to think that I was born from between her legs makes me want to vomit . |
| 18 | Then I was struck from behind . |
| 19 | One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And . |
| 20 | ‘ And I was taught from an early age that you do n't turn your back on those kind of responsibilities . ’ |
| 21 | So I was learning from my own mistakes and others at the time er things like getting the right county where the New Brighton happen to be and things like that I was learning . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , by General Tolonen , shortly before I was dismissed from his service . |
| 25 | But it was still very difficult , because every day I was in London I was moving from one business to the other and they could not have been more different in character . |
| 26 | ONE CHRISTMAS DAY , I stupidly thought that I was flying from London to Bangkok . |
| 27 | ( I met the great sculptor once , you know , when I was hiding from the Doge of Venice 's assassins . |
| 28 | I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance . |
| 29 | Or I was detached from it . |
| 30 | When I was sacked from Aachen , no one bothered to tell me . |