Example sentences of "[noun] i had [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 2 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 3 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 4 | He gave me one , and I folded the cheque carefully into a spill and lit the cigarette with the flame I had obtained from the gas-fire . |
| 5 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 6 | ‘ It clarified one of the things I had said from the start . |
| 7 | I slipped into the great four-poster bed , whispered a few French endearments I had learnt from a wench and set to with a will . |
| 8 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 9 | It seemed far more likely that , as Dr Gyggle suggested , I had become aware of Samuel Northcliffe separately and incorporated information I had gleaned from the newspapers into my fantasy . |