Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 As long as I remain detached from you , I see your actions as aids or obstacles to mine , as means to my ends .
2 He says I got grabbed from behind .
3 I got evicted from my last place I was at .
4 ‘ First I got dropped from RCA , then I was dropped by my publishing company , and then my marriage split up — it was a terrible time all round , really .
5 Each day , in my duties , I got ferried from one side to the other .
6 I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing .
7 ‘ My sole reason for invading your maiden privacy , ’ he said with sarcasm , ‘ was because I 'd heard from the police .
8 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 .
9 and erm I had jaundice as well which I 'd contracted from Jim
10 Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere .
11 All of which I 'd learnt from Churchill , of course .
12 In the end I threw my yoghurt pot full of glue at her and said the ‘ f ’ word I 'd learnt from Auntie .
13 I 'd refrained from advertising any more for fear that we would be overwhelmed .
14 Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it .
15 I wedged it in the carrier bag with the papers I 'd taken from Salome 's briefcase and then we went in search of the veggie noshery recommended by Fenella 's nice policeman .
16 Never having been one to look an unguarded telephone in the mouth , I made another call to the number on the Exhilarator brochure I 'd taken from Salome 's case .
17 They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry .
18 But he only had about a couple of hours to do it in — after I 'd rung from Hannover .
19 There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham .
20 The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots .
21 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 .
22 From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old .
23 There I dampened some paper towels and wiped the flour off the goodies I 'd removed from Flaxperson .
24 The only touch I was remotely pleased with was an elegant , cane-handled parasol I 'd borrowed from a colleague .
25 We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly .
26 So you can guarantee if I get divorced from there down to there I 'll land on fucking and end up back here !
27 This is thanks to the help I have received from my wife , my children , and a large number of other people and organizations .
28 Not only would I have refrained from interfering with Thorpe J. 's decision on the footing that he had properly directed himself and that it was for him to decide , but because , even on the facts as they then were , I consider that his decision was plainly right .
29 ‘ With the publication of Affliction I feel liberated from that obsession with domestic violence . ’
30 For some reason I felt detached from all that was going on , presumably because I was tired and drunk .
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