Example sentences of "i [vb past] from [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got from that shagger in Belfast . |
| 2 | some celery what I got fresh , I cooked some of that cos that 's what I got from that bloke |
| 3 | While I suffered from these dreams on my slab of rock , something woke me . |
| 4 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 5 | I decided from that moment to take him on . |
| 6 | As long as I was forced to stay awake I shrank from any stimulus to sensation ; now I relax and welcome the fading sensations until they are extinct , and for a few minutes will notice impressions of which I am normally unaware , such as the twilight images on the edge of consciousness . |
| 7 | But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted . |
| 8 | I knew from that moment that it was only a question of time — and perseverance on his part — before he would be completely cured . |
| 9 | His reply was he 'd do the same — so I knew from that moment onwards he was the man for me . ’ |
| 10 | I understood from those words that the lives of all honest men on the ship depended on me alone ! |
| 11 | I learned from that outing that there is in top-level racing , as well as intelligence , a physical dimension which is vastly important . |
| 12 | ( I learned from this experience that rigor mortis takes much longer to set in than I had supposed ; quite some time , in fact . ) |
| 13 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 14 | I emerged from that meeting , like everyone else , covered in the smell and stains of tobacco smoke because 60 or 70 per cent . |
| 15 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 16 | Fand whispered , ‘ Long ago I drank from this pool . |
| 17 | The most startling insight I gained from this meeting was the proportion of overall growth in housing provision being made to satisfy migration from England . |