Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 2 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
| 3 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 4 | It was the first thing I 'd ever kept from her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 7 | Further to my letter of 19 May I have now heard from colleagues at the University of Waterloo in Canada , who have been instrumental in preparing the tape and are the owners of the copyright of PAT , the accessing software . |
| 8 | I felt totally alienated from my body , the inferior female body that labelled me second-rate , the body that I did not ask to have . |
| 9 | Suppose that while shopping in a crowded store I become temporarily separated from a friend and in reply to his anxious call shout back " I am here " . |
| 10 | I ca n't get at the underside of my staircase ; how can I fix loose treads from above ? |
| 11 | ‘ My lord , I shall endeavour to take heart from your assurances in regard to Lord Hastings — I derive much comfort from your undertaking in respect of this my younger son . ’ |
| 12 | I hate to say this but I do rather think from the bruising that someone did it to him . ’ |
| 13 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 14 | I , I did briefly manage from |
| 15 | So I said well coming from Judith it would n't surprise me if it could bloody talk |
| 16 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 17 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 20 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 21 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 22 | Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |
| 26 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When I had sufficiently recovered from this onslaught , two points remained fixed in my mind . |
| 29 | I had certainly learned from my talk with Sir Horace Evans of the nature and seriousness of Eden 's malady ; but the great doctor had seemed hopeful in November that a few weeks ’ rest , followed by the normal holiday at Christmas , would be sufficient . |
| 30 | ‘ So I 've already gathered from your own choice of decorating gear , ’ he murmured , once again letting his eyes roam freely over the leotard and leggings clinging lovingly to her like a second skin . |