Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police . |
| 2 | Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere . |
| 3 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 4 | Suddenly I felt detached from the baby . |
| 5 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 6 | That , as I had seen from the outside , was shrouded in green plastic , and , as all the windows seemed to have been boarded up , there was scarcely any light at all . |
| 7 | Approaching in the soft hazy warmth of a still summer evening , Alec and I had descended from the plateau into the cool shadows past the skirting snows of Hell 's Lum Crag . |
| 8 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 9 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
| 10 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 11 | ‘ It clarified one of the things I had said from the start . |
| 12 | Robin Summers was the most recent casualty from my squadron , and I had heard from the German at Amsterdam that he was a prisoner . |
| 13 | I thereupon asked Howard Samuel whether he would grant to the Labour Party a licence for the extract , as I had discovered from the contract that the quotation rights were vested in the publisher . |
| 14 | I had obviously forgiven myself far too easily ; and saying to myself I had gained from the loss in any way was just pure sophistry . |
| 15 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 16 | He gave me one , and I folded the cheque carefully into a spill and lit the cigarette with the flame I had obtained from the gas-fire . |
| 17 | When I went overseas I had graduated from the " Pat and Giggle " stage and could join those who had served several years in Mespot . |
| 18 | I went to the store to check up on some things , and saw that eight Kandinskys which I had bought from the widow of Kandinsky 's secretary were missing . |
| 19 | I was not earning nearly enough for a piano , however modestly priced , but it would cost less than I could raise from one of the famille rose vases I had brought from the house in Park Terrace . |
| 20 | It seemed far more likely that , as Dr Gyggle suggested , I had become aware of Samuel Northcliffe separately and incorporated information I had gleaned from the newspapers into my fantasy . |
| 21 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 22 | The knowledge which I had acquired from the LCCIEB was so relevant that I enjoyed the course tremendously . |
| 23 | ‘ I had strayed from the path of true justice , and used people for my own ends . |
| 24 | I had come from the hotel expecting to return , and was quite unprepared . |
| 25 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 26 | After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally . |
| 27 | It was the manuscript of Lord Byron 's poem which I had retrieved from the floor on the previous evening . |
| 28 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 29 | Now the question arises : have my taste-buds been ruined by the muck I 've plucked from the mouths of babes ? |
| 30 | Now I 've extracted from the nomination form , some things , but I do n't know whether you 've seen them . |