Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I purpose , therefore , to wage war myself in Wales , and I intend to set out from Lichfield on — let me see , this is the twenty-fourth of June — on the seventh day of July . |
| 2 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 3 | As a way of approaching such a theory , I want to step back from questions of programme categorization and return to prior questions of the poetics of genre in case there is something there which the more immediate premisses of popular genre have been missing . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 5 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 6 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 7 | I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved . |
| 8 | I remember coming back from Exercise Jungle King in March 1953 on two engines , the put-put and windscreen wipers and the put-put some time to start that night . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , he is famous for it and I believe sent down from Oxford for it . |
| 10 | If I decide to work through from , say , six to ten , the blessed Chinese and the estimable Indians will be open . |
| 11 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 12 | But it 's , it 's , it 's it sort a it 's , I think carrying through from the old borough days |
| 13 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 14 | I did find out from someone else . ’ |
| 15 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 16 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 17 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 18 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 19 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 20 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 21 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 22 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 23 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 24 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 25 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 26 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |
| 27 | Not s in a sense just by individual feudal landlords , but by landlords saying well I 'm , I 'm not really feudal anyway , that I 've moved on from that , I am a commercial landlord rather than a feudal landlord . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh no , I 've pulled back from that . |
| 29 | That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said . |
| 30 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |