Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 2 | He looked at me as if I 'd crawled out from under the Axminster . |
| 3 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 4 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 5 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 6 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 7 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 8 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 9 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 10 | I painted all mine white with some paint I had left over from an Airfix model of Apollo 11 but all I managed to do was clog up the mechanism . |
| 11 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 12 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 13 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |
| 14 | Not s in a sense just by individual feudal landlords , but by landlords saying well I 'm , I 'm not really feudal anyway , that I 've moved on from that , I am a commercial landlord rather than a feudal landlord . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh no , I 've pulled back from that . |
| 16 | That 's why I 've come over from the States , ’ Howard said . |
| 17 | I have n't been in here since I 've come back from Devon |
| 18 | I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning . |
| 19 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 20 | In any case , I feel I have moved on from there . ’ |
| 21 | By three-twenty , which was what the alarm clock by the bedside said the last time I looked at it , I have moved on from thinking about Timmy and Cheryl and her children , and Cheryl , and Timmy , and Cheryl 's children , and Timmy , and Timmy , and Cheryl , and Timmy , and begun to think about Summerchild and Serafin , and Serafin , and Timmy , and Serafin , yes , and Serafin . |
| 22 | I who have no name and no body — I have slipped out from under him and am now scattered above like flakes of ash-blonde human hair . |
| 23 | He will carry on from me , perhaps , as I have carried on from my father . |
| 24 | I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA . |