Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the main background source that we sought to reject from the refluxed food signal was as a result of the large pool of activity in the stomach . |
| 2 | The day after we tried to telephone from the post office but could not get through to Alassio . |
| 3 | We endeavoured to enquire from a black policeman . |
| 4 | Kalchu was reflecting , wondering which of the shots we 'd heard from the house . |
| 5 | He said that the men we saw emerging from the rue de la Huchette into the place St Michel were probably superannuated rag-pickers . |
| 6 | That 's how we built our company , and we did maximize from the hundred and thirty girls from three years ago . |
| 7 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 8 | But when we got there we found that the mountain we had perceived from the map to be the Cathedral , and which everyone else had perceived to be the Cathedral , was in fact another mountain altogether . |
| 9 | Again , we had suffered from a lack of screens to back the tables for display purposes and privacy . |
| 10 | Our perambulations were interrupted now and again when other young friends with babies , hove in sight and , being infectious , we had to wave from a distance and hurry away from each other . |
| 11 | We had emerged from a private wall into the crazy world of summer skiers , no doubt fresh from their BMWs in the car park below , and bemused by the intrusion of this odd , dilapidated pair of chastened alpinists . |
| 12 | We had to go from the School to the School for two years and back to the School again , and er finally we 'd go to the Academy . |
| 13 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 14 | ( Mindful of what we had seen from the office , we volunteered as witnesses to the Board of Enquiry . ) |
| 15 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 16 | If it was n't that we had to develop from an egg in every generation , I do n't think that kind of conservatism would be observed . |
| 17 | There w–s no sense that we had passed from the holy world of church to secular life : there was a wholeness and a holiness about the whole experience which is difficult to describe . |
| 18 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 19 | Daddy gone , Sambo gone , Mrs Dibdin gone — and the few relics we had left from the olden days all sold , and the house up for sale … ’ |
| 20 | I knew the way then , for we were back-tracking the route we had taken from the airport . |
| 21 | At the hotel , Salah greeted us as if we had returned from the dead , pumping our hands and laughing , " Crazy English , crazy English . " |
| 22 | We had to walk from the next stop . |
| 23 | We sometimes write down the stories and one summer with other children we put on a play we had adapted from a Russian folktale in Folktales of Many Lands . |
| 24 | At last we reached a clearing and the desolate building we had glimpsed from the shore . |
| 25 | The Pinchgut Track spiralled above us , 3,000ft of ascent on top of the 1,500ft we had climbed from the lake . |
| 26 | As each plane took off with a glider following on behind , attached by a long rope , we stood watching from the Met Office in an agony of apprehension until each one was airborne . |