Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] from " in BNC.
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1 | However , at the tender age of eight I was unaware of all this as I marched from the back gate of Canberra , across a narrow road and into White City for the Borough Primary School Sports . |
2 | ‘ Much nicer than I expected from the particulars , ’ she added . |
3 | I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays . |
4 | Er the speed they come out of that bend is unbelievable and I speak from experience Madam Chairman because my daughter lives on that very corner where the bend is and er |
5 | It seems quite likely for I recall from courting days that my own amorous advances met with much the same response . |
6 | She looks at me sometimes and gives sad little sighs , bewildered smiles , as though she really is n't quite sure where I come from . |
7 | During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions . |
8 | I gained infinitely more than I lost from the experience . |
9 | Clearly I can not get along entirely on factual information , any more than I infer from the mere facts how to act here and now . |
10 | ‘ Enjoyed while they lasted and ended by mutual consent when the time came to move on , usually because both the woman concerned and I knew from the start that it was n't going to be a lifelong affair . ’ |
11 | As far as I recall from the last meeting . |
12 | Static electricity of this intensity is unbearable and I suffered from it before I began machine knitting . |
13 | Anyway , mum says I was restless when I returned from my second holiday there . |
14 | Casements on eternity , these great patient masterpieces ought to calm the mind and nourish the spirit , but seldom do , and its rare that I emerge from the National Gallery feeling I have really taken advantage of what 's on offer . |
15 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
16 | My wife got scared as I went from a nice healthy rosy red colour to sheet white in a few seconds : - ( . |