Example sentences of "i have [adv] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No , I had n't deserted from the British Army . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 10 | Erm , I 've just discovered from the |
| 11 | I 've just walked from the car . ’ |
| 12 | I 've just come from the Foreign Office , and you 're immediately on a new assignment . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just come from the Appeal Court . |
| 14 | I 've just come from the Embassy . |
| 15 | May I draw the Economic Secretary 's attention to a study that I have just received from the House of Commons Library 's statistical section ? |
| 16 | ‘ Ma'am , I have just come from the market . |
| 17 | For the above sub-heading I have deliberately copied from the title of a recent publication by Cecily O'Neill and Alan Lambert ( 1982 ) , for it is a manual offering guidance to teachers in their planning of projects for drama . |
| 18 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 19 | I am concerned that I have recently received from the National Westminster Bank an invoice for £10.58 which they have debited from the Parish Council account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ , apparently on your instructions . |
| 20 | I have recently returned from the tropical rainforests of South East Asia where the almost negligible cutting down of trees by ‘ native peoples ’ caused no real destruction over millions of years . |