Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 I 'd look better blonde and I assumed that I could wash the colour out before my parents saw : I must have been naive to think that bleach would affect my hair differently from anything else .
2 I never got my money back from Bill Murphy , either .
3 You will take my dyes , my remedies , my secrets away from me and use them for others .
4 I earned my living mainly from teaching .
5 You 've got your doubts and you know I 've had my doubts right from the
6 ‘ Harry 's carrying my books home from school today .
7 Wherever they pick my car up from
8 My insomnia became chronic whenever Dana stayed the night , simply because I could not take my eyes away from his sleeping form beneath the bedside lamps .
9 Yes , I did get the name of the company and the guitar — Washburn Mercury — but once I 'd dragged my eyes away from the damsel 's cleavage , the questions started .
10 I released her fingers but I could n't drag my eyes away from the gleam of gold as it winked tantalisingly at me .
11 They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ?
12 Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them .
13 I can remember doing my Mick again from The Caretaker and for Shakespeare I did an outrageous choice of Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII , which I do n't think I shall ever be suited to playing .
14 Seaweed and my parents back from the dead and objects come alive and sort of leer at me and sometimes I joyfully feel as if I 'm going to sink to the bottom of the ocean forever , but I wake up and then I do n't know what 's real .
15 Death was very much on my mind , yet I could not tear my attention away from the cavortings of those two inhuman beings .
16 I 'm afraid that my moment away from the phone also meant that I missed my opportunity to query whether I am really the right person for the job .
17 I told her I thought The Times would probably have a man on the spot and it was late , and I prised my Toshiba away from her grasping hands .
18 Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side .
19 I used to be frightened to fall asleep at night sometimes , afraid I 'd stick my head out from under the clothes while I was asleep and wake up to find my head in a dragon 's mouth , before I died . ’
20 ‘ I 'd have to pick my things up from my digs ’
21 Fergie has been saying that he was so concerned about my life-style away from football he called in Sir Matt Busby , the club doctor and even a parish priest to try to get me sorted out .
22 Are they going to take my flat away from me ?
23 It felt as though someone was pulling my lifeline away from me and I was flailing around , trying to grab hold of it .
24 ‘ But after watching the video , I was more pleased with my movement away from the terrific power of his left hook and uppercut . ’
25 She would call my father home from his place of work because there was a spider in the sink .
26 Must remember to spoon up my soup away from me and not slurp it all down my chin .
27 I 'll bring my luggage in from the car . ’
28 Just to cheer you up , I shall tell you about my journey home from the BBC .
29 So I had told each of my friends apart from one .
30 I mostly enjoyed staying with my friends away from home and I did not get homesick .
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