Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got some quotes here that I 've taken from the book which shows not only how Dickens thought women ought to behave , but how the readers , since he was writing for a public market , the readers too thought the ideal woman ought to behave . |
| 2 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
| 3 | I hereby acknowledge that I have received from the sum of £ in payment for the fixtures , fittings and chattels now in or about the above premises listed in the Schedule below AND I confirm that I am absolutely entitled to the same free of any charge , hire-purchase agreement or other incumbrance affecting the same or any of them . |
| 4 | I could not possibly do justice in this speech to all that has been written on the subject , but I hope that I have profited from the many articles which I have read since the hearing . |
| 5 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 6 | Robin Summers was the most recent casualty from my squadron , and I had heard from the German at Amsterdam that he was a prisoner . |
| 7 | Approaching in the soft hazy warmth of a still summer evening , Alec and I had descended from the plateau into the cool shadows past the skirting snows of Hell 's Lum Crag . |
| 8 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 9 | After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally . |
| 10 | On a more mundane level , I have felt delight in contemplating some phenomenon of nature which I have seen and felt with the emotions of a child when I have escaped from the prison house of our habitual thoughts . |
| 11 | I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher . |
| 12 | That , as I had seen from the outside , was shrouded in green plastic , and , as all the windows seemed to have been boarded up , there was scarcely any light at all . |