Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him .
2 I got up from the grass and made my way back to the orchard as Jerry started to drop his shells in the dust cloud left in the wake of the speeding jeeps .
3 It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire !
4 I got up from the table .
5 When I got in from the airport — yesterday , give or take a week — the flat felt lightly dishevelled , hurriedly lived-in , as if the cleaning-lady 's efforts had been briskly cancelled or mussed .
6 I got back from the States this morning .
7 I saw him in my office at ten-thirty , as soon as I got back from the P.M. "
8 When I got back from the war it was all gone destroyed by full employment — not that I 'm regretting that , you understand .
9 I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ .
10 ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’
11 And so I when I got back from the talk I had a look and sure enough there are , throughout the British Isles there are five New Brightons .
12 Eventually I moved on from the blues , picking up on Ronnie Lane again , only by this time The Small Faces had become The Faces .
13 I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet .
14 I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me .
15 When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’
16 I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform .
17 I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones .
18 When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed .
19 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 .
20 Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book .
21 Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops .
22 I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital .
23 When I came back from the bathroom , I looked at my watch .
24 I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts .
25 Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war
26 ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years .
27 She is a historian , or more properly a micro-historian , and she is writing a history of our hillside — the road I walk up from the station and the various lanes and alleyways that open off it .
28 I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine .
29 Helplessly I look up from the patient .
30 So I look up from the jigsaw I had for my birthday .
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