Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 2 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 3 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 4 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 5 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 6 | I did not recover from the wounds inflicted by the dogs for two months , but because of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and kunchok sum [ Buddha , his teachings , and the monastic community ] I recovered . |
| 7 | No , I had n't deserted from the British Army . |
| 8 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 9 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 12 | Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle . |
| 13 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 14 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 17 | The rocks were gigantic boulders of conglomerate , monstrous in their barren strangeness , much larger now we were close to them than I had ever realized from the island . |