Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 2 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 3 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |
| 4 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
| 5 | She had previously benefitted from a credit and loan scheme , but had been unable to continue due to lack of funds . |
| 6 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 7 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 8 | She had recently emerged from a much-publicised divorce from Frank Sinatra and a month 's transcendental meditation with the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India . |
| 9 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 10 | Indeed , Clara knew from first hand experience the moral truth of the story told in The Golden Windows about the house with the golden windows , for she had once admired from a friend 's house the whole dazzling , distant , smoky lay-out of her own hillside . |
| 11 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 12 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 13 | On the contrary , it had only resulted from a number of complex and unforeseeable political developments at court . |
| 14 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 15 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
| 16 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 17 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 18 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 19 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 20 | He had clearly emerged from a rougher mould than the well-mannered and smooth-tongued Golding . |
| 21 | He knew the man whom he had grudgingly raised from a boy . |