Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust .
2 My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood .
3 Still not worried , still sliding smoothly through the crowds , feeling as elusive as a shadow , I passed from night-spot to night-spot .
4 ‘ Well , you must remember , Mr McKillop , that the information I got from Elsie on that topic was n't given to me all at one time .
5 And that , the answers I got from Government was , use a voluntary body , they do n't have to pay that .
6 And I helped him out with money I got from Dad .
7 Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad .
8 ‘ That was the impression I got from suppliers and customers . ’
9 the , the christian erm the born again christian council I mean some of the quotes I got from people
10 I moved from Women to God , ’ he explained to Kate .
11 I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys
12 I moved from ground level to tower block level , which produced a dynamic image more in keeping with a 20th century view of city life .
13 I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office .
14 As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers .
15 I learnt from Otto before I left that Ahmed had been taken into custody prior to being deported .
16 There were faces among them that I recognised from England , and from the training centre at Achnacarry .
17 Mrs Ewing said : ‘ This decision , coupled with the pledge of support which I secured from John Major in Strasbourg last December , means that Europe 's least densely populated area stands a much better chance of receiving justice . ’
18 For eighteen months or more I suffered from chest spasms or a form of acute asthma .
19 In the first stages , the first winter , I do n't remember feeling cold at all ; or , at least , I do n't remember that I suffered from cold any more than anyone else did .
20 I told her I suffered from headaches .
21 It would be an exaggeration to say I suffered from morning sickness , but my suspicions were certainly aroused when I began to feel a little queasy in the early part of the day .
22 You know , the difficulty of getting up to the flats , i you know I I suffered from arthritis , and er you know i it was quite a strenuous business to get from the ground up to our own flat .
23 I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys
24 I came from England to see her today .
25 Since I came from Scotland she had expected me to be ‘ large , raw-boned and ‘ dower ’ [ i.e. dour ] ' .
26 But you know when I when I c last time I came from France and I came a came across the widest part of the channel er I got done once I had a B written on my board and then they come and crossed it out .
27 No , I came from India straight to England .
28 Basically you 'd er just stand back and ha Actually in my platoon of fifty men it happened to me more than it happened to anybody else because I came from Glasgow .
29 I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him .
30 I noted from Gergiev 's conducting CV that he had n't escaped the grip of the Union of Composers : the works or its secretary- general , the ogre-figure of Tikhon Khrennikov who had been behind the 1948 denunciations of Prokofiev and Shostakovich , are a fairly regular feature .
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