Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 2 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 3 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 4 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 5 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 6 | ‘ I came here to get away from them ’ . |
| 7 | Because I came here to get away from people , not to bump into them . ’ |
| 8 | I came here to get away from that . ’ |
| 9 | I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny , as if I had never been away . |
| 10 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 11 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 12 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 13 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 14 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 15 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 16 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 19 | I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’ |
| 20 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 21 | Then John Keane came along , the only artist I 've ever taken on from seeing slides . |
| 22 | I 've recently moved here from Heymouth ’ |
| 23 | I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot . |
| 24 | I have also learnt much from the skills of others : without Chris Whitaker and Tess Lomax we might not have succeeded in improving the way we organise community care . |
| 25 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 26 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 27 | I have perhaps strayed away from matters of industry . |
| 28 | But I have always shied away from using it on tables , perhaps feeling that a table should be capable of taking a certain amount of abuse . |