Example sentences of "from [pron] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 2 | He swivelled his chair away from me and stared out of the window . |
| 3 | He sat in the seat across the aisle from me and said the cars would be backed into a siding for two days , the engine would be removed and used elsewhere , and there would be a security guard on duty . |
| 4 | All might still have been well , if he had n't , in a desire to make me happier stood away from me and said , " You look lovely . " |
| 5 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 6 | She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps . |
| 7 | As it happened , I emerged a little late and I fear I rather startled the young gentleman , who immediately pulled his attaché case away from me and clutched it to his chest with both arms . |
| 8 | He pulled up about three yards from me and stuck the boat into full reverse to stop . |
| 9 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 10 | Mrs McDougall , with a quick , concerned look at me , took my basket from me and dumped it on the counter . |
| 11 | Diplomatically , he took the golf bag from me and headed for the car park . |
| 12 | A wooden Scotty-dog with a waggly , leather jointed body nipped my finger , and he snatched it from me and hurled it on to the fire , hitting it repeatedly with the poker until it disintegrated . |
| 13 | He pushed away from me and stood up and stumbled over to a wooden chest , tearing one of its drawers right out so that it crashed to the carpeted floor and a load of jumpers fell out . |
| 14 | Flaubert , who visited the island in 1847 , got lost in these deserted , deceptively placid fields , of which he wrote : ‘ One would have said that all those who owned them profited from them but did not like them . ’ |
| 15 | He turned away from them and struggled for control . |
| 16 | The three youths waited , debating within themselves whether honour had been satisfied as he took his attention from them and returned it to Marion ; and suddenly , as his eyes burned into her like a couple of lasers , it was as if the two of them stood alone and everything else was just background . |
| 17 | He flung around from them and walked to the end of the room . |
| 18 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 19 | He commented on the smell of petrol that came from them and made an elaborate joke of not putting them too close to the flames . |
| 20 | French teachers , being civil servants , do not choose their schools ; they are posted to them , and may be removed from them and sent elsewhere . |
| 21 | As we got to the car , I stood back from them and said , ‘ You can do this to me once , but you ca n't go on doing it . |
| 22 | And his mother promised him so to do ; and then he departed from them and went out against the frontier of the Moors . |
| 23 | I fled from them and joined the rebels in Brittany . ’ |
| 24 | Pressing it more firmly against her breast as his breathing became as erratic as her own , she moved her mouth from his and buried her face in his neck . |
| 25 | With a sob she drew her mouth from his and cried out as she threw her head back . |
| 26 | Quickly she pulled her hand away from his and opened the car door to scramble out . |
| 27 | With a final effort that she felt in every nerve of her body , she jerked her hand from his and turned away to the fire . |
| 28 | She unlocked her eyes from his and turned to pass through to the apartment . |
| 29 | But now that her once-passionate nature was reawakening and she was beginning to feel vibrantly alive again , the cold perfunctory touch of her husband 's fingers seemed suddenly more repugnant than ever before , and she withdrew her hand hastily from his and picked up her glass to conceal the real reason for breaking the contact . |
| 30 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |