Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 2 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 3 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 4 | I felt that I had progressed from just wanting to ‘ be gay ’ to being ‘ Black and gay ’ . |
| 5 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 6 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 7 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 10 | For so long I resisted any change to my hairstyle — I thought I knew what suited me — I was entrenched in an image that I had held from years gone by . |
| 11 | I held up a bottle of Long John that I had brought from Helsinki . |
| 12 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 13 | That I wanted to come from school but they would n't all ow me to come from school because me father had signed for four years you see . |